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AN  APOSTASY  FROM 

SCIENCE  AND  CHRISTIANITY 


A  COURSE   OF    LECTURES 

DELIVERED    BY 

REV.    CYRIL    BUOTICH,    O.    F.    M. 

IN     ST.     BONIFACE     CHURCH 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CALIFORNIA 


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AN  APOSTASY  FROM 

SCIENCE  AND  CHRISTIANITY 


A  COURSE   OF    LECTURES 

DELIVERED    BY 

REV.    CYRIL    BUOTICH,    O.    F.    M. 

IN     ST.     BONIFACE     CHURCH 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CALIFORNIA 


COPYRIGHT.    1916 

BY 

CYRIL   BUOTICH.    O.    F.    M 


FOREWORD 


The  lectures  herewith  presented  were  deliv- 
ered during  the  services  of  the  Pious  Union  of 
St.  Anthony.  They  appear  in  their  present 
form  in  response  to  the  request  of  Superiors 
and  the  inquiries  of  many  who  were  in  attend- 
ance. 

If  their  style  prove  unpalatable  to  some  lit- 
erary critic,  I  can  only  plead  the  excuse  that 
it  is  mine,  and  that  I.  could  devote  to  the  revi- 
sion of  notes  only  the  uncertain  moments 
snatched  from  the  more  pressing  duties  of  the 
priestly  ministry. 

If  severity  be  given  expression  to,  I  offer  no 
apology.  These  lectures  were  prepared  to  be 
spoken  not  coldly,  but  with  the  intense  desire 
of  striking — ^not  at  the  individual  Christian 
Scientist,  who  may  be  an  honest  victim  of  a 
gigantic  swindle  —  but  at  the  movement  of 
Christian  Science,  which  is  not  a  harmless  fad, 
but  a  distinct  form  of  religion,  appropriating 
the  name  of  Christian,  yet  insidiously  inimical 
to  Jesus  Christ,  professing  to  relieve  the  suf- 
ferings   of   humanity,   yet,    if   universally   ac- 

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cepted,  bound  to  increase  those  sufferings  a 
hundredfold.  If  Mrs.  Eddy  has  been  made  an 
object  of  attack,  it  is  because,  as  F.  W.  Pea- 
body  observes,  Mrs.  Eddy  is  Christian  Science, 
and  Christian  Science  is  Mrs.  Eddy. 

Among  the  books  and  lesser  publications  I 
read  and  used  in  preparing  these  lectures  I 
desire  to  mention  "Christian  Science  in  the 
Light  of  Holy  Scripture,  ^^  by  Dr.  I.  M.  Halde- 
man;  "The  Eeligio-Medical  Masquerade,"  by 
F.  W.  Peabody,  LL.  B.;  "Christian  Science 
against  Itself,"  by  M.  W.  Gifford,  Ph.  D.; 
"What  Is  Christian  Science?"  by  P.  C.  Wol- 
cott,  B.  D.;  "Hypnotism,"  by  Dr.  A.  Moll; 
"Psychotherapy,"  by  J.  J.  Walsh,  M.  D., 
LL.  D.;  "Pastoral  Medicine,"  by  A.  E.  San- 
ford,  M.  D. 

Unless  otherwise  stated,  the  1913  edition  of 
"Science  and  Health"  is  quoted. 

Fr.  Cyril,  0.  F.  M. 


Imprimi  potest 

Fr.  Hugolinus  Storff,  0.  F.  M., 
Min.  Provlis. 


Imprimatur 

^Eduardus  J.  Hanna, 

ArcMepiscopus  Sancti  Francisci. 


INTRODUCTORY   LECTURE 


"But  though  zve,  or  an' angel  from  heaven,  preach  a  gospel 
besides  that  ivhich  we  have  preached  to  you,  let  him  be 
anathema."     Gal.  1:8. 

It  was  on  the  blessed  day,  when  Jesus  Christ, 
standing  on  the  mountain  in  Galilee,  addressed 
to  His  assembled  apostles  the  momentous 
words,  ''All  power  is  given  to  Me  in  heaven 
and  on  earth.  Going  therefore,  teach  ye  all 
nations, '^  that  the  Catholic  Church  received  her 
commission  to  be  the  Oracle  of  truth  and  the 
Teacher  of  mankind,  and  to  pass  down  the 
ages  bearing  in  one  hand  for  the  children  of 
men  the  sacred  scroll  of  the  Gospels  and  in  the 
other  the  blessed  fruits  of  the  redeeming  death 
of  the  Divine  Savior  on  the  cross. 

Glorious  Career  of  the  Divinely  Instituted 
Church. 

How  faithfully  she  has  heeded  that  com- 
mand, and  what  magnificent  triumphs  she  has 
achieved  in  the  interests  of  Christ  as  well  as 
for  the  welfare  of  men,  her  record  today  after 
a  career  of  nineteen  centuries  bears  glorious 


and  undying  testimony.  In  every  cycle  and 
century  she  has  proclaimed  the  teachings  of 
Christ  as  she  heard  them  from  His  own  sacred 
lips;  to  every  race  and  generation  she  has 
carried  the  tidings  of  redemption;  in  every 
clime  and  country  she  has  erected  altars  of  the 
unbloody  sacrifice,  whence  flow  the  graces  of  the 
crucified  Savior  into  the  souls  of  those  who 
adore  Him  as  their  God  and  Redeemer.  What 
marvel,  then,  that  millions  have  learnt  lovingly 
to  gaze  upon  her  as  their  Mother,  and  rever- 
ently to  honor  her  as  the  Spouse  of  Jesus 
Christ,  bearing  the  fourfold  mark  of  unity, 
sanctity,  catholicity  and  apostolicity. 

Unrelenting  Antagonism. 

Yet  I  bid  you  to  gaze  back  over  her  history 
and  judge  what  violent  opposition  and  agony 
of  keen  rivalry  have  been  her  portion,  from 
the  very  day  she  first  set  forth  to  accomplish 
her  mission  to  this  very  hour  and  moment. 
The  Christ-hating  emperors  of  Rome  un- 
sheathed the  sword  of  persecution ;  the  jealousy 
of  pagan  religions  and  pagan  philosophy 
heaped  upon  her  ignominy  and  slander;  and 
the  blood  of  thousands,  of  millions,  of  her 
mangled  children  soaked  the  hot  sands  of  the 
arenas  of  antiquity.  The  blood  of  martyrs, 
however,  became  the  seed  of  new  Christians, 
and  the  arms  of  the  tiger-hearted  emperors  of 


Rome  sank  exhausted  and  paralyzed  to  their 
sides.  The  cross  was  raised  aloft  over  the 
ruins  of  Paganism,  and  shone  forth  in  trium- 
phant glory. 

False  Prophets  and  False  Christs,  Old 
and  New. 

But,  alas,  the  respite  of  peace  and  calm  was 
short-lived.  There  arose  other  enemies,  not 
violent  but  the  more  dangerous,  because  the 
more  insidious.  There  appeared  in  the  field 
new  religions,  —  religions,  that  usurped  the 
name  of  Jesus,  falsely  claimed  divine  commis- 
sion and  illumination,  and,  to  bear  out  their 
contention,  hesitated  not  to  appeal  to  wonder- 
ful cure  and  prodigy. 

They  lived  their  day;  but  bearing  within 
themselves  the  germs  of  error  and  falsehood, 
they  eventually  sank  into  the  dust  of  the  grave, 
and,  we  would  hope,  into  unceasing  oblivion. 
But,  alas,  no!  The  spirit  of  Neo-platonism 
and  Gnosticism  has  come  to  life  again.  Today 
also  have  appeared  intruders  and  counterfeits, 
philosophers  and  hierophants,  with  honeyed 
words  upon  their  tongues  and  poison  beneath 
their  tongues,  presenting  to  the  world  strange 
^4sms"  and  new  religions,  garbed,  indeed,  in 
the  robes  of  Christian  truth  and  Christian 
charity,  yet  replete  within  with  deceit  and 
cruelty.      Such '  a   masquerading   impostor    we 


charge  the  form  of  worship  and  healing  system 
founded  by  Mrs.  Mary  Baker  Glover  Eddy  to 
be,  which  she  called  Christian  Science  and 
described  as  ''based  on  teachings  of  Scripture 
which  it  interprets,  giving  the  Christ  principle 
in  divine  metaphysics  which  heals  the  sick  and 
the  sinner/' 

The  Appearance  of  Christian  Science. 
Its  Progress. 

Having  discovered  Christian  Science  as  the 
result  of  scriptural  research  (as  I  understand 
her),  Mrs.  Eddy  first  began  her  active  propa- 
ganda in  1867.  In  the  year  1875  appeared  her 
bible  and  authoritative  textbook,  "Science  and 
Health."  Within  the  space  of  twenty  years, 
Mrs.  Eddy  witnessed  her  religion  pass  in  a 
triumphant  march  from  the  Atlantic  Coast  to 
our  own  Western  shores,  spreading  the  seeds 
of  her  teachings  broadcast  over  the  land  and 
conquering  the  hearts  of  thousands  of  the 
American  people.  In  the  wake  of  its  victories 
have  arisen  Christian  Scientist  churches  in 
every  city  of  size  and  importance,  and  in  Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts,  towers  aloft  today  the 
Scientists'  "Temple,"  representing  an  expen- 
diture of  millions  of  dollars. 

Quality  of  Membership. 
The  magnificence  of  the  majority  of  these 
structures  and  their  grandeur  of  architecture, 


as  well  as  the  luxurious  limousines  parked  in 
their  vicinity,  lead  us  to  believe  that  those  who 
attend  Christian  Science  services,  are  not  men 
and  women  of  very  humble  means,  much  less 
down-and-outs  of  the  slum  districts  who,  for 
soup  and  lodging,  affiliate  each  succeeding 
night  with  a  different  Church,  but  representa- 
tives of  the  so-called  circles  of  society  and 
aristocracy  of  wealth. 

True,  an  abundance  of  wealth  among  Chris- 
tian Scientists  does  not  necessarily  connote  an 
abundance  of  gray  brain-matter  and  intelli- 
gence. We  doubt  not  at  all,  that  the  larger 
number  of  the  adherents  of  Christian  Science 
is  formed  of  that  class  of  people,  for  whom,  it 
may  be  feared,  ''a  little  learning  is  a  danger- 
ous thing,''  people  who  are  sufficiently  educated 
to  rant  and  rave  over  mystical  and  oracular 
paradoxes,  yet  not  learned  enough  to  detect 
sophistry  and  shallowness  of  argument.  .  Still 
the  further  fact  remains  true,  amazing  as  it  is, 
that  into  the  fold  of  Christian  Science  have 
wandered  also  persons  of  acknowledged  intel- 
lectual power  and  culture,  men  who  are  the 
avowed  exponents  of  the  very  sciences  which 
Christian  Science  tends  to  supplant  and  de- 
stroy, men  of  eminence  in  the  legal  and  educa- 
tional professions;  and  it  is  this  spectacle  of 
intelligence  and  sincere  human  endeavor  sacri- 
ficed before  the  idol,  reared  by  a  comparatively 


uncultured  and  absolutely  unsympathetic 
woman,  that  fills  us  with  disgust  and  renders 
us  sick  at  heart. 

Explanation  of  Mark  Twain. 

Witnessing  this  phenomenon,  Mark  Twain 
in  a  personal  letter  written  to  F.  W.  Peabody 
of  the  Boston  Bar  offers  the  following  expla- 
nation: ''At  bottom  I  suppose  I  take  private 
delight  in  seeing  the  human  race  make  an  ass 
of  itself  again — which  it  has  always  done  when- 
ever it  had  a  chance, — so  far  as  I  know  men 
have  never  shown  any  noticeable  degree  of  san- 
ity in  their  affairs,  and  to  me  it  appears  rather 
large  flattery  to  intimate  that  they  are  capable 
of  it.  See  them  get  down  and  worship  that 
old  creature  [meaning  Mrs.  Eddy].  A  century 
hence  they'll  be  at  it.  Sanity — in  the  human 
race!     This  is  really  fulsome." 

These  are  the  words  of  Mark  Twain,  and  not 
ours.  We  have  conceived  and  retain  too  high 
a  regard  of  the  dignity  of  human  nature.  Shall 
we  ridicule  and  jest?  No,  the  hour  is  too  ear- 
nest and  the  sacrifice  too  appalling.  Shall 
our  words  be  those  of  contempt  and  sneer  and 
scoff?  No,  we  feel  only  pity;  and  even  in  the 
supposed  truth  of  Mark  Twain's  assertion,  we 
could  not  bring  ourselves  to  a  chuckling  with 
delight  over  the  sight  of  the  human  race  mak- 
ing an  ass  of  itself. 


Element  of  Truth  in  All  Erroneous  Systems. 

But,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  we  do  not  think 
asininity,  as  alleged  by  Mark  Twain,  to  be  the 
secret  of  the  wide  success  of  Christian  Science 
in  gaining  converts.  No,  we  prefer  to  propose 
another  explanation  —  an  explanation  based 
upon  the  theory  that  there  is  no  absolute  and 
unmitigated  error,  but  that  in  every  heresy, 
grotesque  and  egregious  though  it  be,  there  is 
an  element  of  truth,  and  that  it  is  this  element 
precisely,  presented  in  novel  form  and  fashion, 
which  constitutes  an  attractive  feature. 

According  to  this  theory,  then.  Christian 
Science  has  struck  upon  and  drawn  from  the 
past  some  principle,  some  truth,  that  lay  long- 
obscured  and  much  neglected,  and  it  is  by 
means  of  this  truth  that  it  today  wields  an 
immense  influence. 

True   Principle   in   Christian   Science. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  we  have  been 
quite  thoroughly  saturated  with  medicine.  The 
gold-lettered  '^M.  D.'^  signs  staring  down  at  us 
from- a  hundred  windows  in  every  street,  the 
drug  stores  with  their  long  rows  of  brightly 
colored  patent  medicines,  labeled  to  cure  every 
sickness,  ill,  infirmity,  bruise,  stiffness,  lacera- 
tion, are  quite  sufficient  evidence  that  we  have 
become  a  medicine-soaked  and  an  over-drugged 
generation.     Moreover,    many    have    not    only 


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been  steeped  in  medicine,  but  also  in  the  errors 
of  materialism.  The  scalpel  of  the  surgeon 
cannot  reach  the  soul;  therefore,  the  existence 
of  the  soul  has  been  denied.  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy 
appeared, — and  undoubtedly  for  many  as  an 
angel  of  light.  When  they  lay  in  the  throes 
of  the  hideous  nightmare  of  materialism,  she 
awoke  them  to  the  fact  and  truth  of  the  exist- 
ence and  superiority  of  spirit.  When  they  pos- 
sessed, at  best,  a  ghastly,  despiritualized  form 
of  Christianity,  she  brought  them  a  creed  which 
in  some  measure  produced  in  their  souls  a  sense 
of  spirituality. 

Nay,  she  has  done  more.  She  has  reduced 
the  truth  of  the  superiority  of  mind  over  mat- 
ter to  practice.  She  has  demonstrated  that 
under  certain  conditions  the  soul  can  exercise 
control  over  the  body  for  the  obtaining  of 
health,  having  conquered  hypochondria  in  a 
vast  number  of  cases,  bettered  the  condition 
of  many  whose  ailment  depended  upon  the 
nervous  system  directly,  nay,  it  is  possible, 
won  triumphs  in  the  realm  of  disease  whose 
connection  with  the  nervous  system,  though 
not  fully  apparent,  was  none  the  less  real, 
although  indirect. 

Finding  hope,  when  hopeless,  and  cure,  when 
abandoned,  ''no  wonder, ''  to  use  her  own 
words,    ''the    American    spirit,    unquiet    in    a 


drug-soaked  body,  arose  with  joy  at  the  sug- 
gestion of  a  new  evangel.'' 

Whif  Do  We  Quarrel  with  Christian  Science? 

Right  in  Some  Affirmations — Wrong  in 

Thousand  Negations. 

In  view  of  these  facts,  why  should  we  quar- 
rel with  Christian  Science?  Why?  Because 
we  have  considered  only  the  ounce  of  truth 
contained  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  system,  and  not  as 
yet  touched  upon  the  large  admixture  of  error 
and  falsehood.  For  though  Christian  Science 
is,  indeed,  correct  in  some  isolated  affirmations, 
it  is  wrong,  damnably  wrong,  in  a  thousand 
negations.  It  has  truthfully  reasserted  against 
Materialism  the  superiority  of  mind  over  mat- 
ter, but  at  the  same  time  it  has  swung  like  a 
pendulum  to  the  opposite  extreme  and  lapsed 
into  a  stultifying  form  of  Idealism ;  it  may  pro- 
fess belief  in  the  existence  of  God,  yet  it  con- 
ceals within  itself  the  vagaries  of  Pantheism; 
it  may  impart  a  taste  of  the  spiritual,  yet  it 
crams  down  bulging  mouthfuls  of  blasphemy; 
it  may  have  effected,  by  virtue  of  the  principle 
of  control  of  mind  over  body,  cures  in  a  few 
isolated  cases,  yet  there  are  scores  of  others, 
where  innocent  children  and  duped  adults  have 


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been   victimized   and   sacrificed    to    fanaticism 
and  ignorance. 

Will  Perish.     Whilst  It  Endures  Will  Prove  a 
Menace. 

Shall  we,  therefore,  let  Christian  Science 
alone?  Shall  my  voice  fail  to  ring  in  denunci- 
ation and  invective  against  it?  No!  Convinced 
though  I  am,  that  eventually  it  will  die  the 
same  inglorious  death  and  share  the  same  fate 
as  its  foundress,  now  mouldering  in  the  ceme- 
tery of  Mt.  Auburn,  yet  I  realize  that,  whilst 
it  continues  to  wear  the  masque  of  bluff  and 
hypocrisy,  it  will  entice  vast  numbers  into  its 
clutches  and  crush  the  Christian  life  and  spirit 
out  of  them  upon  its  bosom. 

Deliberately,  therefore,  have  I  made  those 
charges  against  Christian  Science,  and  it  shall 
be  my  endeavor  during  the  course  of  these 
lectures  to  sustain  and  prove  them, — not  ex- 
actly with  the  purpose  of  discharging  a  duty 
of  truth-telling  towards  Christian  Scientists 
(for  genuine  investigation  has  been  boycotted 
and  forbidden  to  them,  and  demonstration  falls 
dead  upon  deaf  ears),  but  from  a  sense  of  duty 
towards  those  who  are  sincerely  perplexed  and 
are  wandering  towards  error,  and,  most  of  all, 
to  sound  the  tocsin  of  warning  to  Catholics, 
lest  some  of  them  forsake  the  bosom  of  their 
Mother  Church  and  be  decoyed  by  a  religion, 


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that  wears  but  the  masque  of  Christianity,  a 
religion,  that  promises  them  fruit  from  the 
tree  of  knowledge  and  life,  yet  in  reality  otf ers 
them  Dead  Sea  apples,  beautiful  from  without, 
but  filled  with  ashes  and  corruption,  poison 
and  death. 


MATTER  NOT  A  REALITY 


"In  the  beginning  God  created  heaven,  and  earth."   Gen.  1:1. 

EiGHTLY  and  aptly  has  gratitude  ever  been  re- 
garded as  the  noblest  adornment  of  the  human 
soul,  whereas  mgratitude  has  at  all  times  been 
abhorred  as  the  mark  of  a  mind,  ignoble  and 
mean.  It  was  our  endeavor  in  the  course  of 
the  last  lecture  to  escape  the  ignominy  of  the 
latter  and  to  merit  the  glory  of  the  former. 
Frankly  we  conceded  that  Christian  Science 
has  lent  its  efforts  towards  thwarting  the  prog- 
ress of  Materialism,  one  of  the  most  groveling 
forms  of  error  and  yet  one  of  the  favorite 
philosophic  systems  of  the  closing  years  of  the 
past  century.  We  know  that  the  Catholic 
Church,  divinely  constituted  the  Teacher  of 
truth  and  endowed  with  never-dying  power,  is 
as  vigorous  today  and  as  confident  of  obtaining 
ultimate  victory  over  every  foe,  as  she  was 
in  centuries  gone  by.  Yet  why  should  we  not 
welcome  and  hail  with  delight  the  advent  and 
co-operation  of  every  ally,  promising  to  strive 
against  falsehood  and  uphold  truth  in  its  orig- 


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inal  purity!  Hence  we  could  not  but  give 
expression  to  our  sentiments  of  rejoicing  and 
gratefulness,  faint  though  they  were,  that  Mrs. 
Baker  Eddy,  by  virtue  of  her  practical  demon- 
strations, recalled  many  from  perhaps  the 
darkest  cavern  of  error  to  the  glorious  con- 
sciousness, that  there  lives  a  spark  of  immortal 
fire,  that  all  within  us  and  about  us  is  not  mat- 
ter, but  that  in  our  bodies  of  flesh  and  blood 
resides  a  spiritual  soul,  holding  and  wielding 
influence  for  good. 

We  Recoil  from  Mrs.  Eddy. 

But  had  Mrs.  Eddy  only  ceased  there!  Had 
she  not,  unsteadied  and  unguided  by  the  hand 
of  the  Spouse  of  Christ,  rushed  to  the  other 
extreme!  The  Materialist  shocked  us,  by  af- 
firming that  all  is  matter.  Mrs.  Eddy  would 
insult  our  intelligence,  by  telling  us  that  all 
is  mind.  And  now, — we  recoil  from  her.  She 
proposes  a  philosophy,  which  would  delude  us 
into  the  belief,  that  we  and  all  our  ancestors 
to  the  cradle  of  the  race,  have  been  in  throes 
of  a  nightmare,  when  we  asserted  the  existence 
of  body  and  limb,  nay,  of  sky  and  sun  and 
universe,  a  philosophy  which  would  convince  us 
that  our  five  senses,  those  God-given  mediums 
of  the  human  soul  through  which  it  obtains  its 


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knowledge  of  the  outside  world,  are  so  many 
lying  mediums. 

Testimony  of  the  Senses  False.      No  Matter. 

Sweepingly  she  assails  their  testimony  in 
the  following  words :  ' '  The  five  physical  senses 
are  the  avenues  and  instruments  of  human 
error,  and  they  correspond  with  error. ' ' 
(^'Science  and  Health,''  pg.  293.)  ^'Christian 
Science  reveals  man  as  the  idea  of  God,  and 
declares  the  corporeal  senses  to  be  mortal  and 
erring  delusions."  (''Science  and  Health," 
pg.  477.)  Having  denied  their  evidence,  she 
then  apodictically  establishes  as  the  fundamen- 
tal tenet  in  the  metaphysics  of  Christian  Sci- 
ence the  following  proposition:  ''Matter  seems 
to  be,  but  is  not."  ("Science  and  Health,"  pg. 
123.)  "Divine  Science,  rising  above  physical 
theories,  excludes  matter,  resolves  things  into 
thoughts."  ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  123.) 
"Matter  and  death  are  mortal  illusions." 
("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  289.) 

Human  Body  a  Concept  of  Mortal  Mind.  Bones 
Have  Only  the  Substance  of  Thought. 

Hence,  according  to  this  woman  clothed  in 
the  rays  of  wisdom,  the  very  pews  of  oak, 
which  you  this  moment  occupy,  are  thoughts. 
You  are  sitting  upon  "spiritual  ideas."  You 
may  reassure  me,  you  feel  the  hardness  of  the 


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wood,  and  see  the  gloss  and  brilliancy  of  the 
varnish.  But  that  avails  you  nothing.  Mrs. 
Eddy  has  declared  your  senses  are  so  many 
false  witnesses  and  you  are  the  victims  of  their 
illusions.  Moreover,  your  bodies  exist  only  in 
false  belief.  Your  eyes,  now  fixed  upon  me, 
your  ears  now  listening,  your  hands  resting 
upon  your  knees,  the  very  bones  which  serve 
as  a  frame  for  your  build  of  flesh  and  veins 
and  blood — all  are  unreal  in  the  system  of  this 
woman,  who  writes  (in  ''Science  and  Health, '^ 
pg.  177):  "Matter  or  body,  is  a  false  concept 
of  mortal  mind.''  (And  pg.  423):  "Bones 
have  only  the  substance  of  thought  which 
formed  them.  They  are  only  phenomena  (ap- 
pearance) of  the  mind  of  mortals." 

Question  of  Weight,  One  of  Mind. 

Mrs.  Eddy  anticipates,  when  you  are  inclined 
to  argue.  She  puts  the  question,  "How  can 
I  believe  there  is  no  such  thing  as  matter  when 
I  weigh  over  two  hundred  pounds  and  carry 
this  weight  about  daily T'  (Misc.,  pg.  46, 
quoted  by  I.  M.  Haldeman)  and  then  answers: 
"By  learning  that  matter  is  manifest  mortal 
mind.  You  entertain  an  adipose  belief  of 
yourself  as  substance."  (Misc.,  pg.  47,  quoted 
by  I.  M.  Haldeman.)  Accordingly,  weight  is 
not  a  matter  of  scales  but  of  imagination.  Ac- 
credit yourself  the  weight  of  a  battleship  and 


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you  will  weigh  tons,  or,  by  a  broad  jump  to 
the  opposite  extreme,  with  a  fine  taste  for  the 
delicate,  fancy  yourself  as  light  as  the  feather 
whirled  about  by  the  breeze,  and  you  average 
not  the  weight  of  a  letter  transmitted  through 
the  mails  for  a  two-cent  stamp.  Pity  'tis,  Mrs. 
Eddy  herself  made  not  practical  use  of  this 
hint  during  the  last  years  of  her  life,  if  we  are 
to  credit  the  descriptions  of  her  personal  ap- 
pearance ! 

Man    or    Woman  —  Your    Choice!!     Material 
Order  of  Generation  Rendered  Silent. 

Finally  she  makes  an  assertion  regarding  the 
anatomy  of  the  human  body  and  the  mysteries 
of  life,  that  I  would  loathe  to  express,  were  it 
not,  that  an  adequate  treatment  of  the  subject 
demands  it.  With  serious  mien  Mrs.  Eddy 
assures  us,  "Gender  is  a  quality  of  mind,  not 
of  matter."  ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  201, 
74  ed.,  quoted  by  I.  W.  Haldeman.)  There  is, 
therefore,  in  her  teaching  no  physiological  dis- 
tinction of  sex.  The  Almighty  created  them 
not  male  and  female.  Your  being  a  man  or  a 
woman  depends  upon  your  subjective  belief. 
Stunning  as  may  be  this  piece  of  absurdity 
that  issued  from  the  pen  of  a  woman,  whom 
thousands  revere  as  the  Light  and  Truth,  gasp 
not  for  breath  till  you  hear  the  further  conclu- 
sion that  she  draws,  namely,  "Generation  rests 


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on  no  sexual  basis"  ("Science  and  Health," 
pg.  274,  74  ed.,  quoted  by  I.  W.  Haldeman)^ 
but  "The  so-called  substance  of  bone  is  formed 
first  by  the  parent's  mind,  through  self^ 
division.  Soon  the  child  becomes  a  separate, 
individualized  mortal  mind,  which  takes  pos- 
session of  itself  and  its  own  thoughts  of 
bones."  ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  424.) 
Mrs.  Eddy,  Married  Three  Times,  Believes  Not 
in  Marriage. 

This  is  appalling.  Quite  readily  do  we  now 
understand  how  this  same  woman  could  write: 
"To  abolish  marriage  at  this  period  and  main- 
tain morality  and  generation,  would  put  in- 
genuity to  ludicrous  shifts;  yet  this  is  possible 
in  science  (Christian  Science),  although  it  is 
today  problematic."  (Misc.,  pg.  286,  quoted 
by  C.  E.  Locke.)  We  are  not  unprepared  to 
accord  belief  to  the  statement  that,  at  the  dedi- 
cation of  "Mother  Church"  in  Boston,  Mrs. 
Eddy  characterized  marriage  as  "synonymous 
with  legalized  lust."  Christian  Scientists 
strongly  deny  this,  yet  Mr.  Peabody  of  the 
Boston  Bar  assures  us  that  it  can  be  found  in 
the  Christian  Science  Sentinel  for  June  16, 
1906,  and  in  the  Christian  Science  Journal  for 
July,  1906. 

The  Universe,  a  Construction  of  Mind. 

But  to  return  from  our  digression — you  will 
pass  out  and  wander  into  the  night.    The  vault 


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and  dome  of  the  firmament  above  is  studded 
with  a  thousand  burnished  lights.  In  yonder 
quarter  of  the  heavens  the  moon  rolls  in  cloudy 
grandeur.  Her  rays  fall  softly  upon  the  bosom 
of  the  bay,  and  her  silvery  glow  bathes  the 
city  in  glory.  The  words  of  the  Psalmist  rise 
spontaneously  from  your  heart,  ''The  heavens 
show  forth  the  glory  of  God."  But  no !  Chris- 
tian Science  will  ruthlessly  awaken  you  from 
your  revery.  Vain  man,  cease  your  wonder- 
ing! Marvel  not  over  mortal  error!  For  all 
you  behold  is  not  the  universe,  as  you  and  your 
forefathers  conceived  it — matter  hanging  in 
space — but  all  a  construction  of  mind  based 
upon  the  fallacy  of  false-belief.  We  have 
learned  to  pity  Hamlet  in  the  paroxysms  of 
his  madness.  But  he  was  not  mad.  He  raved 
not.  He  spoke  the  sober  and  absolute  truth, 
when  he  said,  "This  goodly  frame,  the  earth, 
seems  to  me  a  sterile  promontory, — this  majes- 
tical  roof  fretted  with  golden  fire,  why  it  ap- 
pears no  other  thing  to  me  than  a  foul  and 
pestilent  congregation  of  vapors."  Poor  Ham- 
let !  We  thought  him  raving  and  mad.  Lo,  he 
was  but  an  advanced  Christian  Scientist. 

You  may  think  that  I  am  with  deliberate 
intent  poking  fun  at  the  system  of  Christian 
Science  and  rendering  it  ludicrous  and  ridicu- 
lous. But  I  protest,  I  am  not.  If  there  be  any 
nonsense,  to  which  expression  has  been  given, 


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it  lies  solely  in  what  Mrs.  Eddy  has  asserted 
and  in  the  inference  obviously  to  be  drawn 
from  it. 

Theory  and  Practice  of  Christian  Scientists. 
We  know  full  well  that  Christian  Scientists 
do  not  fashion  their  lives  and  actions  after  the 
teachings  of  their  system.  Mrs.  Eddy  may 
deny  the  existence  of  matter,  but  we  know  that 
she  as  well  as  her  followers  take  special  care 
to  avoid  a  headlong  collision  with  a  locomotive, 
turn  in  the  fire  alarm  when  their  houses  are 
wrapped  in  flame  and  fire,  make  careful  distinc- 
tion between  dollars  and  cents.  They  may 
deny  the  existence  of  body,  yet  we  understand 
that  they,  too,  sit  at  the  table  three  times  a 
day,  and  partake  not  of  the  products  of  imagi- 
nation, but  of  the  products  of  the  pastures, 
fields  and  meadows.  Furthermore,  Mrs.  Eddy 
may  assert  that  a  diversity  of  sex  exists  only 
in  the  mind  and  its  belief,  yet  we  notice  that 
followers  of  Christian  Science  exercise  particu- 
lar care  to  marry  an  ^'idea,''  opposite  in  gen- 
der from  themselves,  and  in  the  case  of  Mrs. 
Eddy  not  once  but  twice  and  thrice  a  male 
^4dea." 

Arguments   Afford   No    Justification   to 
Catalogue  of  Negations. 
Yet  what    Christian   Scientists   do,   engages 
not  at  present  our  attention.     Since  it  is  evi- 


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dent  that  the  foundress  of  Christian  Science 
has  negated  the  existence  of  matter  and  has 
formally  rejected  the  testimony  of  the  senses, 
what  interests  us  now  is  to  ask  what  proofs 
does  Mrs.  Eddy  offer  in  justification  of  her 
sweeping  negations.  Formally  she  offers  al- 
most none,  and  substantially  none  at  all.  She 
may  rightly  contend  that  God  is  an  omnipres- 
ent spirit,  yet  wrong  and  unwarranted  is  her 
further  statement  that  hence  His  existence  ex- 
cludes the  existence  of  matter.  God  is  an 
infinite  Spirit,  and,  as  such,  must  not  be  con- 
strued as  a  space-filling  bulk.  Moreover,  the 
senses  may  have  erred  in  some  instances,  yet 
why  should  their  testimony  be  accounted  false 
in  every  instance!  And  if,  from  uncritical  and 
narrow  observation,  men,  crediting  their  senses, 
did  entertain  in  the  past  the  erroneous  belief 
that  the  earth  is  flat  and  stationary,  still  were 
not  those  very  same  senses  employed  later  on 
in  gaining  the  necessary  evidence  that  cor- 
rected the  erroneous  inference  regarding  the 
stellar  system!  Finally,  vain  is  the  appeal  of 
Mrs.  Eddy  based  upon  the  fact  that  the  mind 
can  conjure  imaginary  objects.  True,  I  can 
imagine  a  fleet  of  ships  riding  in  proud  array 
at  anchor.  Yet  affords  this  an  argument  that 
ships  and  bay  exist  not?  Does  not  the  very 
fact  that  I  can  conceive  in  my  imagination 
ships  and  bay,  argue  that  at  some  time  I  have 


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perceived  the  realities  of  both!  The  shadow 
presupposes  the  existence  of  the  reality.  And 
is  it  not  just  because  there  are  realities  which 
obtrude  themselves  on  every  normal  mind  pre- 
cisely as  realities,  that  men  can  distinguish  per- 
ceptions of  the  senses  from  mere  ghostly 
products  of  a  heated  and  feverish  mind?  Some 
Christian  Scientists  assert  that  their  system 
negates  the  existence  of  no  object,  but  only 
affirms  it  to  be  mental.  This  contention,  how- 
ever, is  equally  absurd.  The  untutored  savage 
of  the  forest  primeval  will  tell  you,  that  there 
is  a  difference  between  the  deer,  which  he  fol- 
lows in  his  dream,  and  the  deer,  which  he  de- 
tects grazing  in  the  forest  depths.  The  latter 
exists,  and  is  real.  The  former  is  merely  an 
idea  of  a  deer.  And  an  idea  of  a  deer  is  not  a 
deer  either  in  the  mind  or  in  the  forest. 

Two  classes  of  individuals  appear  to  be  un- 
able to  perceive  the  distinction  between  objects 
oF  reality  and  those  of  fancy.  One  we  meet  in 
the  D.  T.  wards  of  our  hospitals,  and  the  other, 
if  we  are  to  believe  their  words,  in  the  circle 
of  Christian  Scientists. 

Ch7^istian  Science  Destructive  of  the  Physical 
Sciences. 

Such  then  is  the  fundamental  and  first  plank 
in  the  platform  of  Christian  Science — perfo- 
rated with  error  and  falsehood.     Men  of  sci- 


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ence,  of  different  religious  persuasion  than 
our  own,  with  particular  delight  and  relish 
point  the  finger  of  scorn  at  our  Mother  Church, 
and  designate  the  centuries  of  her  sway  as 
^'dark  ages/'  Why  do  they  not  now  turn  the 
outpourings  of  their  indignation  upon  the  mod- 
ern Prophetess  of  New  England'?  This  time 
their  wrath  would  prove  righteous.  Mrs.  Eddy 
teaches,  ^'matter  is  nothing,  and  nothing  is 
matter."  It  is  her  '^ plank."  Now,  rest  upon 
this  plank  the  efforts  and  achievements  of  men 
of  science  of  every  age — and  then  hearken  to 
the  crash!  For  if  matter  exists  not,  then  all 
the  properties  of  matter,  weight,  porosity,  ten- 
acity, etc.,  are  vaporous  dreams;  attraction, 
electricity,  sound,  heat,  etc.,  are  childish  fan- 
cies. What  remains,  therefore,  of  the  natural 
sciences  and  the  teachings  of  physics'?  What 
further  purpose  serves  chemistry  in  the  cur- 
riculum of  our  colleges,  since  all  the  tedious 
work  of  experiment  deals  with  the  discovery  of 
''inverted  thought"?  We  thought  chemical 
properties  exist  whether  discovered  or  not  by 
mind,  yet,  according  to  Eddyism,  they  ema- 
nate from  mortal  mind.  Ye  astronomers,  in- 
vert— destroy  your  telescopes !  Scan  not  the 
skies  by  night!  Those  twinkling  stars  and 
wheeling  orbs  possess  no  substantiality.  They 
are  mere  fireflies  flitting  across  the  empty 
spaces  of  mind.    Ye  plain  and  common  people, 


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arise  in  indignation  and  raze  to  the  ground  the 
colleges  of  medicine  and  surgery!  For  within 
those  walls  are  being  carefully  trained  the  men, 
who  will  swindle  you  into  the  belief  that  bone 
is  mostly  lime,  and  that  flesh  and  blood  are 
chemical  compounds,  whereas  (as  teaches  Mrs. 
Eddy)  lung  and  liver,  stomach  and  heart  are 
but  forms  of  mortal  error  and  false  belief. 
Nay  (pardon  the  digression),  ye  housewives, 
hang  up  your  brooms  and  dusters!  There  is 
no  dust  on  your  parlor  table, — the  cobwebs 
hang  not  in  the  corners  of  your  rooms,  but  in 
the  corners  of  your  mind !  You  may  have  been 
ignorant  of  this  fact  in  the  past,  and  exerted 
useless  effort,  but  then  you  knew  not  ^'Sci- 
ence. ' ' 

Christian  Science  Contradicts  the  Bible 
Narrative  of  Creation. 

Veritably  Carrie  Nation  displayed  not  a 
more  destructive  temper  in  wrecking  saloons, 
than  does  Mrs.  Eddy  in  assailing  the  edifice  of 
science.  Her  attacks  on  the  Bible  and  its 
author,  however,  recall  the  ignominious  mem- 
ory of  Eobert  Ingersoll.  Moses  writing  under 
divine  inspiration  opens  the  Book  of  Genesis 
with  the  solemn  words,  ''In  the  beginning  God 
created  heaven,  and  earth.''  Minutely  and 
graphically  he  describes  the  formation  of  the 
universe,  the  separation  of  the  dry  land  from 


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the  waters,  the  enriching  of  the  former  with 
flower  and  fruit,  the  filling  of  the  latter  with 
fishes  that  wander  "through  the  paths  of  the 
sea."  In  the  last  place  he  records  the  creation 
of  Adam  and  Eve,  so  that  if  is  evident  that 
matter  existed  and  was  fashioned  into  design 
and  order  long  before  deluded  individuals  with 
mortal  minds  even  existed.  So  plain  are  the 
inspired  writer's  words,  so  manifest  is  his 
intention  to  record  a  creation  of  matter,  so 
clearly  does  his  record  convey  a  condemnation 
of  the  theories  of  Christian  Science,  that  Mrs. 
Eddy  could  not  escape,  but  growing  desperate, 
had  no  other  refuge  than  to  call  Moses  an 
ignoramus.  For  she  writes,  ''Spiritually  fol- 
lowed, the  Book  of  Genesis  is  the  history  of 
the  untrue  image  of  God,  named  a  sinful  mor- 
tal." (''Science  and  Health,"  pg.  502.)  "The 
translators  of  this  record  (the  Genesis  record 
of  creation)  entertained  a  false  sense  of  be- 
ing." Why?  Because  they  contradicted  Mrs. 
Eddy — "they  believed  in  the  existence  of  mat- 
ter." ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  545.)  In- 
spired or  uninspired,  by  God  or  angel  or  devil, 
anyone  presuming  to  contradict  Mrs.  Eddy  is 
unqualifiedly  ignorant. 

Mrs.  Eddy  Blasphemes. 

In  her  insolence  she  proceeds  farther.     You 
recollect  the  scene  in  Paradise.     The  first  par- 


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ents  of  the  human  race  had  listened  to  the 
overtures  of  the  Ambassador  of  Evil.  They 
virtually  had  declared,  ^'We  shall  not  serve. '^ 
Upon  them  the  angered  Sovereign  and  Creator 
passed  the  appalling  sentence,  '^Dust  thou  art 
and  unto  dust  thou  shalt  return.'^  The  evi- 
dent meaning  of  the  text  is:  Thy  body,  which 
is  formed  originally  of  the  slime  of  the  earth 
(dust),  shall  again,  through  the  natural  forces 
of  dissolution,  pass  into  dust.  But  Mrs.  Eddy 
would  correct  even  the  Almighty  God.  She 
would  cause  Him  to  say,  '^Dust  (nothingness) 
thou  art,  and  unto  dust  (nothingness)  thou 
shalt  return. '^  (^'Science  and  Health,"  pg. 
545.)  What  meant  then  the  infinitely  wise 
God?  Has  He  imposed  sentence  upon  noth- 
ing, and  decreed  that  nothing  should  be  reduced 
to  nothing!  Either  Mrs.  Eddy  in  her  negation 
of  the  existence  of  matter  and  body  is  wrong, 
damnably  wrong,  or  the  All-wise  God,  of  whom 
the  Apostle,  St.  Paul,  speaks  in  rapture,  '^0, 
the  depth  of  the  riches  of  the  wisdom  and 
knowledge  of  God!'*  has  spoken  in  the  sense- 
less babble  of  a  child. 

Mrs.  Baker  Eddy  professedly  has  made  a 
'' discovery, ' '  and  proffered  it  to  the  world 
under  the  names  of  '^Science"  and  ^'Christian- 
ity''; but  witnessing  her  in  unhesitating  and 
unqualified  terms  reject  the  evidence  of  the 
senses  testifying  to  the  existence  of  the  uni- 


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verse,  witnessing  her  in  consequence  sweep 
from  under  all  the  natural  sciences  their  very 
foundations,  witnessing  her,  in  mad  endeavor 
to  maintain  her  proposition,  assail  the  Word 
of  God,  I  beg  of  you  to  pass  judgment  if  Chris- 
tian Science  be  not  in  truth  an  apostacy  from 
Science  and  Christianity. 


MAN  IS  NEVER  SICK 


"And  He  healed  many  that  were  troubled  with  diverse  dis- 
eases."   Mark  1 :34. 

In  the  solenm  and  silent  hour  of  midnight 
wander  into  the  hospital  and  through  the 
wards,  where  on  couches,  white  and  well- 
ordered,  lie  the  city's  sick  and  wounded.  From 
our  innermost  heart  we  thank  heaven  for  the 
beautiful  charity,  exhibited  by  the  white-clad 
figure,  silently  moving  from  one  sufferer  to 
another,  soothing  fever  and  thirst  in  turn. 

We  depart  with  the  heart's  most  tender 
cords  deeply  stirred,  and  with  the  firm  resolve, 
that,  if  millions  were  our  portion,  we  would 
employ  them  in  erecting  for  those  sufferers  the 
most  comfortable  shelter  and  the  best  equip- 
ment that  art  and  science  can  devise  and  erect 
— thus  in  some  slight  measure  to  lift  the  heavy 
hand  of  pain  and  agony,  weighing  upon  the 
human  race  on  account  of  its  first  transgres- 
sion. 

Disease  Unreal. 

From  the  far  off  days,  when  Christ  healed 
the  sick  in  the  hamlets  of  Galilee,  to  the  pres- 


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ent  hour,  such  have  ever  been  the  sentiments 
of  those  who  glory  in  His  blessed  name  and 
call  themselves  Christian.  However,  there  is 
one  bold  exception,  namely,  the  Christian  Sci- 
entist. He  has  sat  at  the  feet  of  Mrs.  Eddy. 
In  his  heart  now  no  sentiments  of  commisera- 
tion and  charity  dwell.  Not  only  is  it  his  con- 
tention that  hospital  of  brick  and  steel  would 
prove  a  phantasmal  structure  of  deluded  mind, 
but  having  been  taught  that  human  body  also 
exists  not,  from  this  premise  he  draws  the 
farther  conclusion,  cruel  and  merciless  in  its 
logic,  that  all  the  sad  and  sorrowful  drama  of 
the  world's  disease  and  sickness  is  but  one 
huge  mistake  of  mortal  mind.  There  is  no  heart 
to  suffer  valvular  leakage;  there  are  no  eyes 
to  be  blind,  no  ears  to  be  deaf,  no  lungs  to  be 
corroded  with  tuberculosis.  Hence  Mrs.  Eddy 
writes,  ^'A  self-evident  proposition  in  the  sci- 
ence of  mind-healing,  is  that  disease  is  unreal." 
C^No  and  Yes,"  pg.  4.)  ^'Some  time  it  will  be 
learned  that  mortal  mind  constructs  the  mortal 
body  with  this  mind's  own  mortal  materials. 
In  Science,  no  breakage  nor  dislocation  can 
really  occur."  (''Science  and  Health,"  pg. 
402.)  ''All  that  we  term  sin,  sickness,  and 
death  is  a  mortal  belief."  ("Science  and 
Health,"  pg.  278.) 


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The  Message  of  Christian  Science  to  Grieving 
Parents. 

Such  is  the  message  (consolatory  or  distract- 
ing, I  know  not)  that  Mrs.  Eddy  would  bring 
the  youthful  mother,  as  she  beholds  her  first 
born  wither  and  waste  upon  her  bosom  like  the 
bruised  flower  of  spring;  such  is  the  philosophy 
that  Christian  Science  would  offer  the  silent 
and  sorrowing  father,  as  he  bends  over  the  bed 
and  contemplates  the  wasting  form  of  him, 
upon  whom  he  once  centered  hope  and  pride, 
but  whom  he  now  sees  in  the  clutches  of  the 
skeleton-god,  shortly  to  bear  him  to  the  grave. 
Such  also  is  the  assurance  that  the  consistent 
Eddyite  would  offer  you  when,  as  a  spectator, 
you  witness  the  harrowing  scene  of  a  man 
dragged  from  beneath  the  wheels  of  a  trolley 
car — his  lower  limbs  ground  into  an  unsightly 
pulp  of  blood  and  bone  and  rags.  "No  break- 
age nor  dislocation  can  really  occur.''  ("Sci- 
ence and  Health,"  pg.  402.) 

The  man  writhing  in  his  blood  may  appeal 
to  his  exposed  and  quivering  nerves,  that  he 
feels  the  pain, — the  pale  spectators  may  argue 
that  with  their  eyes  they  see  the  mutilated 
limbs.  But,  foolish  mortals!  therein  precisely 
lies  the  fatal  error.  "Realize  that  the  evidence 
of  the  senses  is  not  to  be  accepted  in  the  case 
of  sickness,  any  more  than  it  is  in  the  case  of 
sin."     ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  386.) 


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All  Disease  the  Result  of  Education. 
Therefore,  we  are  not  ill,  we  are  not  racked 
with  pain,  we  are  not  wounded  by  the  assas- 
sin's bullet,  nay,  we  are  not  even  stretched  out 
a  lifeless  corpse  as  the  deadly  missive  speeds 
through  the  center  of  the  heart — no,  victims  of 
false  belief,  we  imagine  it  all.  For  teaches 
Mrs.  Eddy:  ''Damp  atmosphere  and  freezing 
snow  empurpled  the  plump  cheeks  of  our  an- 
cestors, but  they  never  indulged  in  the  refine- 
ment of  inflamed  bronchial  tubes.  They  were 
as  innocent  as  Adam,  before  he  ate  the  fruit 
of  false  knowledge,  of  the  existence  of  tuber- 
cles and  troches,  lungs  and  lozenges."  (''Sci- 
ence and  Health,"  pg.  175.)  "All  disease  is 
the  result  of  education."  ("Science  and 
Health,"  pg.  176.)  Nay,  even  horse-diseases 
are  "the  result  of  education,"  for  Mrs.  Eddy 
writes :  ' '  You  can  even  educate  a  healthy  horse 
so  far  in  physiology  that  he  will  take  cold  with- 
out his  blanket,  whereas  the  wild  animal,  left 
to  his  instincts,  sniffs  the  wind  with  delight. 
The  epizootic  is  a  humanly  evolved  ailment, 
which  a  wild  horse  might  never  have."  ("Sci- 
ence and  Health,"  pg.  179.) 

Christian  Science  Would  Cure  Disease  by 

Denying  Its  Existence. 
Belief  and  education!     Upon  their  truth  or 
falsity  depends  either  the  "glowing  exuberance 


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of  health"  or  the  '' wasting  of  dire  and  ravag- 
ing disease."  False  belief  inaugurated  into 
the  world  the  drama  of  sickness  and  wretched- 
ness, of  blood  and  death.  Now,  correct  that 
erroneous  belief,  invert  the  idea  of  sickness, 
^'turn  his  gaze  from  the  false  evidence  of  the 
senses  to  the  harmonious  facts  of  Soul  and 
immortal  being.  Tell  him  that  he  suffers  only 
as  the  insane  suffer,  from  false  beliefs"  (*^ Sci- 
ence and  Health,"  pg.  420),  and  behold  the 
wondrous  change  and  glorious  result!  The 
demon  spectre  of  plague  absconds,  the  rattling- 
skeleton  of  death,  with  the  scythe  upon  his 
shoulder,  scampers  away,  and  the  golden  days 
of  Paradise  burst  anew,  where  neither  pain 
does  hurt,  nor  fever  burn.  But,  alas,  methinks 
it  is  all  a  dream. 

Unconscious  Patients  Incapable  of  False  Belief. 

Have  you  watched  the  babe  contort  and 
twitch  its  infant  features  in  pain?  The  fright- 
ened mother  will  summon  the  physician,  who 
will  administer  medicine  for  colic.  The  Eddy- 
ite,  however,  will  say  it  is  a  case  of  false  belief. 
But  how  can  that  infant,  in  whose  mind  not 
even  the  first  rays  of  intelligence  have  as  yet 
burst,  exercise  belief,  true  or  false? 

On  his  bed  the  typhoid-stricken  patient  rolls 
and  tosses.  Again,  ^' false  belief"!  But  how 
can   that  mind,   maddened  with   raging  fever 


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and    stupefied    into    nnconsciousness,    exercise 
belief,  correctly  or  erroneously? 

Down  the  hatchway  of  the  lumber-schooner 
the  stevedore  falls.  He  is  picked  up  a  limp 
and  unconscious  form,  with  a  fractured  skull. 
Again  perhaps,  ''false  belief"!  With  brain 
deranged,  the  gray  matter  perhaps  oozing 
through  the  rift,  and  in  the 'soul  the  darkness 
of  absolute  insensibility  reigning,  how  can  that 
man  think  that  his  head  is  split  open! 

Unconscious  Patients  Incapable  of  Correcting 
False  Belief. 

Now,  these  patients  sometimes  recover.  To 
the  infant  a  dose  of  catnip  is  given,  and  the 
paroxysms  of  pain  disappear.  On  the  steve- 
dore an  operation  is  performed,  the  surgeon 
with  deft  hand  lifting  the  bone  of  the  skull 
resting  on  the  brain,  and  consciousness  returns. 
We  assert  the  recovery  was  due  to  the  efficacy 
of  the  medicine  and  to  the  science  of  surgery. 
The  Christian  Scientist,  however,  will  argue, 
no,  the  patient  merely  corrected  his  belief,  dis- 
engaging himself  from  the  erroneous  idea  that 
he  was  afflicted.  But  how  can  an  unconscious 
patient  correct  his  belief,  argue  himself  into  a 
state  of  health?  Then  it  must  have  been  due 
to  the  faith  that  the  patient  reposed  in  the 
medicine,  namely,  in  its  curative  virtue.  But, 
I  ask,  was  not  the  medicine  administered,  the 


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operation  performed,  whilst  the  patient  was 
still  incapable  of  thought  and  volition?  How 
could  he  elicit  an  act  of  faith  that  the  medicine 
would  give  him  a  new  lease  on  life? 

Drugs  Produce  Effects  by  Imputed  Virtue. 

But  granted  that  the  patient  were  conscious 
and  capable  of  thought,  why,  as  a  matter  of 
fact  and  undeniable  observation,  will  a  small 
dose  of  arsenic  benefit  him,  whilst  a  large  dose 
proves  his  undoing?  Depends  that  also  on 
faith?  Dr.  Marston  writes:  ^'The  not  uncom- 
mon notion  that  drugs  possess  absolute,  inher- 
ent, curative  virtues  of  their  own  involves  an 
error.  Arnica,  quinine,  opium  could  not  pro- 
duce the  effects  ascribed  to  them  except  by 
imputed  virtue. 

"Men  think  they  will  act  thus  in  the  physical 
system,  and  consequently  they  do.  The  prop- 
erty of  alcohol  is  to  intoxicate ;  but  if  the  com- 
mon thought  had  endowed  it  with  a  nourishing 
quality  like  milk,  it  would  produce  a  similar 
effect." 

Intoxicated  at  the  Buttermilk  Counter.    Suicide 
by  Swallowing  Cough-Medicine! 

Accordingly,  if  the  general  belief  prevailed, 
that  milk  were  an  intoxicant  and  alcohol  a 
nutrient,  men  after  a  long  sitting  at  the  butter- 
milk counter  would  reel  homewards  in  the  same 


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zigzag  course  as  after  leaving  the  corner  saloon 
in  the  early  hours  of  the  morning,  whereas  if 
a  growing  child  or  an  emaciated  convalescent 
would  swallow  an  otherwise  staggering  dose 
of  alcohol,  it  would  prove  to  be  a  true  tonic, 
feeding  the  nerves  and  giving  fresh  vigor.  Or, 
to  apply  the  same  principle  to  other  drugs  and 
medicines,  if  catnip  were  conceived  to  be  a 
deadly  poison,  then  its  taking  would  produce 
the  same  fatal  results  as  a  dose  of  strychnine 
or  perhaps  carbolic  acid.  But  now  let  us  ask 
— suppose  one  person  with  suicidal  intent  swal- 
lows, by  mistake,  cough-medicine  for  strychnine 
and  another  person,  to  relieve  a  slight  cold, 
takes  strychnine  for  cough-medicine,  why  then 
should  not  the  effect  upon  the  body  in  both 
cases  correspond  to  the  belief  that  is  attached 
to  each  respectively?  Yet  we  know,  aside  of 
a  slight  dizziness,  the  small  dose  of  quinine 
will  leave  the  one  of  unrequited  love  quite  hale 
and  sound,  whilst  the  strychnine,  though  taken 
by  mistake,  likely  will  mean  a  free  transporta- 
tion to  the  city  morgue. 

Majority    Opinion    Rules.     Majority    Opinion 
Enters  Not  into  the  Matter. 

But  Mrs.  Eddy,  unruffled,  presses  the  further 
explanation,  and  we  think  to  more  glowing  ab- 
surdities, saying,  ''In  such  cases  a  few  persons 
believe  the  potion  swallowed  by  the  patient  to 


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be  harmless,  but  the  vast  majority  of  mankind, 
though  they  know  nothing  of  this  particular 
case  and  this  special  person,  believe  the  arsenic, 
the  strychnine,  or  whatever  the  drug  used,  to 
be  poisonous,  for  it  is  set  down  as  a  poison 
by  mortal  mind."  (''Science  and  Health,"  pg. 
177.)  Hence,  similarly  as  in  political  elections, 
majority  rules — the  thought  of  the  larger  part 
of  mankind  pitted  against  and  preponderating 
over  that  of  the  lesser  part.  But,  I  ask,  how 
can  the  majority  opinion  enter  into  the  matter 
at  all!  It  knows  not  even  of  the  existence  of 
the  particular  drug.  Concede  that  a  chemical 
deterioration  has  occurred,  why  loses  the  medi- 
cine the  potency  it  formerly  possessed?  Neither 
you  nor  I  nor  the  rest  of  men  were  aware  of 
the  fact  of  the  change;  and  yet  the  medicine 
that  formerly  possessed  all  the  virulence  lurk- 
ing in  the  poison  bags  of  a  rattlesnake,  now 
perhaps  is  as  harmless  as  the  water  of  a  moun- 
tain brook. 

Why  argue  further?  Mrs.  Eddy  has  sweep- 
ingly  denied  the  existence  of  body  and  disease, 
medicine  and  poison.  With  what  consistency 
can  she  speak  of  recovery  or  of  death,  attrib- 
ute health  to  medicine  or  death  to  poison? 
Consistency,  however,  appears  to  be  a  minor 
virtue  among  the  Eddyites.  I  know  from  per- 
sonal statements,  that  in  this  city  Christian 
Scientists  visit  a  certain  herb  specialist.    They 


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proffer  the  explanation  that  God  created  the 
herbs.  But  are  not  finally  the  majority  of 
medicines  extracted  from  herbs?  And  are  not 
herbs,  even  when  prepared  by  Chinese  special- 
ists, still  medicine?  Moreover,  Arthur  Preuss, 
in  the  issue  of  his  Review  for  August,  1902, 
writes  that  Mrs.  Eddy  had  a  tooth  drawn.  In- 
deed, there  is  nothing  extraordinary  in  an  old 
woman  having  a  decaying  molar  extracted. 
But  knowing  the  position  of  Christian  Science 
relative  to  the  existence  of  tooth  and  pain,  we 
marvel  over  Mrs.  Eddy's  conduct.  We  can 
hardly  believe  that  she  was  so  vain  in  her  last 
days,  as  to  submit  to  the  painful  operation 
merely  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  her 
beauty ! 

We  do  not  criticise  Christian  Scientists  for 
seeking  the  services  of  a  dentist.  It  demon- 
strates that,  despite  Christian  Science,  they 
still  retain  some  of  the  common  sense  they  in- 
herited from  their  grandparents.  But  we  ask 
them,  how  can  they  hold  a  philosophy  assert- 
ing that  tooth  and  forceps  and  dentist  are 
folly,  and  still  ask  the  dentist  to  employ  those 
same  forceps  on  their  jaws,  or,  what  is  more 
puzzling,  how,  after  the  material  tooth  has  been 
extracted  and  they  have  the  ideal  state  of 
nothingness  existing  in  its  place,  can  they  be- 
come so  enamored  of  matter  as  to  feel  the  need 


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of  having  an  artificial  tooth  inserted?     (A.  C. 
Dixon.) 

Mechanical   Injuries   to    the   Body.      The    Un- 
thinking Lobster,  a  Perfect  Christian 
Scientist. 

But  to  return  from  the  digression — let  us 
consider  the  theory  of  Mrs.  Eddy  regarding 
mechanical  injuries  to  the  body.  In  ''Science 
and  Health,"  page  423,  she  writes:  ''Bones 
have  only  the  substantiality  of  thought  which 
forms  them."  And  on  page  472  (74  ed., 
"Science  and  Health")  :  "When  the  unthinking 
lobster  loses  his  claw  it  grows  again.  If  the 
science  of  health  were  understood,  it  would  be 
found  that  the  senses  of  the  mind  are  never 
lost,  and  that  matter  has  no  sensation.  Then 
the  human  limb  would  be  replaced  as  readily 
as  the  lobster's  claw — not  with  an  artificial 
limb,  no,  but  with  a  genuine  one."  We  are 
not  so  envious  as  to  begrudge  the  blushing- 
lobster  the  eulogy  that  Mrs.  Eddy  bestows 
upon  him  for  being  a  perfect  Christian  Scien- 
tist, still  we  are  constrained  to  ask,  how  can  a 
lobster  lose  a  claw,  since  claw  is  matter,  and 
matter  is  nothing?  and  how  can  he  be  equipped 
with  a  new  and  second  one,  since  the  newly 
acquired  member  also  would  be  matter,  and 
again  matter  is  nothing?     Lose  nothing,  and 


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replace   it    with   nothing?      Thus    equivalently 
Mrs.  Eddy. 

In  Christian  Science  the  Insane  Are  Immune 
from  Disease  and  Accident. 

But  accepting  the  lobster  illustration,  the 
conclusion  is  evident  that  all  who  are  as  irra- 
tional and  dumb  as  the  snapping  lobster  are 
immune  from  every  disease  and  sickness,  and 
accident.  Hence,  all  degenerates,  lunatics, 
idiots,  ought  to  be  able  to  sever  their  hands 
and  feet,  nose  and  ears,  at  will — and  replace 
them  with  new  ones.  Pity  'tis,  we  all  are  not 
lobsters!  Still  all  of  us  can  leap  from  the 
dizzy  heights  of  a  precipice,  fall  from  Zeppe- 
lins, roll  under  the  grinding  wheels  of  the  loco- 
motive, for  says  Mrs.  Eddy,  '^  bones  have  only 
the  substance  of  thought,'' — and  you  cannot 
grind  a  thought  even  under  the  ponderous 
wheels  of  a  locomotive. 

Insane  Asylums — Temples  of  Hygeia. 

Accept,  then,  the  teachings  of  Christian  Sci- 
ence and  every  insane  asylum  becomes  a  temple 
of  Hygeia;  for  lunatics,  in  whom  reason  has 
been  dethroned,  exercise  no  belief — they  are 
quite  similar  to  the  ''unthinking  lobster." 
Christian  Science  Puts  a  Premium  on  Igno- 
rance. Blots  Out  Knowledge  of  Sani- 
tation,  Medicine    and   Surgery. 

Accept  the   teachings   of  Christian   Science, 


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and  all  the  proud  and  marvelous  progress  that 
knowledge  and  sanitary  science  have  made,  is 
but  retrogression;  knowledge  is  simply  a  curse, 
and  a  premium  is  to  be  set  upon  ignorance. 

Accept  the  teachings  of  Christian  Science, 
and  the  city  of  San  Francisco  has  exploited 
your  hard-earned  money  by  rearing  the  City 
and  County,  the  Emergency  and  the  Detention 
Hospitals.  They  are  indeed  magnificent  build- 
ings, yet  they  serve  only  to  foster  a  popular 
and  fatal  delusion.  Systems  of  sanitation, 
the  flushing  of  streets,  proper  sewerage,  are 
sources  of  worthless  expenditure  and  wasted 
funds.  Microbes  of  smallpox  and  typhoid  are 
but  ^'bugs"  in  your  deluded  minds;  reeking 
and  pestilential  marshes  are  as  sweet  and 
healthy  as  dew-laden  flowers  glistening  in  the 
morning  sun. 

Christian  Science  Contradicts   the  Bible. 

Bereft  of  every  shred  of  sense  or  logic,  this 
mountebank,  like  so  many  others  who  prey 
upon  public  credulity,  must  steal  the  name  of 
Jesus  and  the  cloak  of  Christianity!  Yet, 
there  is  not  an  inspired  scriptural  writer,  from 
Moses  who  recorded  the  punishment  inflicted 
upon  a  fallen  race,  to  the  Seer  of  Patmos  who 
predicted  the  various  plagues,  that  Mrs.  Baker 
Eddy  does  not  antagonize  and  contradict, — 
thus  rendering  the  Bible,  with  its  continuous 


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tale  of  woe  and  pain,  one  long  tale  of  lie  and 
imposition. 

St.  Paul  Not  a  Christian  Scientist. 

St.  Paul,  whom  I  consider  every  bit  as  thor- 
ough a  Christian  as  Mrs.  Eddy,  writes  to 
Timothy,  his  disciple,  ''Use  a  little  wine  for 
thy  stomach's  sake."  Did  the  Apostle  suffer 
an  acute  attack  of  false  belief  in  the  existence 
of  wine  and  stomach,  or  was  he  positively  so 
unprincipled  as  to  confirm  his  disciple  in  error, 
and  lend  credence  to  a  falsehood  for  genera- 
tions to  come! 

Christian  Science  Destroys  the  Proving  Poiver 
of  the  Works  of  Christ. 

Unchristian  as  is  "Christian  Science,"  it  is 
also  positively  anti-christian.  The  disciples  of 
St.  John  the  Baptist  asked  the  Savior,  ''Art 
Thou  He,  who  art  to  come,  or  shall  we  look 
for  another!"  Christ  answered,  "Go,  relate 
to  John,  what  you  have  heard  and  seen.  The 
blind  see,  the  lame  walk,  the  lepers  are 
cleansed, ' '  etc.  Now,  why  pointed  the  God-man 
to  these  phenomena?  Were  they  not  works 
that  by  reason  of  their  miraculous  and  super- 
natural character  were  calculated  to  prove  be- 
yond argument  His  claims  to  the  Messiahship? 
Did  not  He  Himself  issue  the  challenge  to  the 
doubting  bystanders,   "If  you   do   not  believe 


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Me,  believe  My  works?"  But,  if  according  to 
the  teachings  of  Christian  Science,  those  men 
in  the  Gospel  were  not  lame  and  blind,  then  the 
fact  that  they  walked  and  saw,  was  most  un- 
miraculous  and  quite  natural.  The  supernatu- 
ral and  extraordinary,  namely,  the  cures  ef- 
fected by  Christ,  presupposes  the  existence  of 
the  natural  and  ordinary,  namely,  of  diseases. 
Thus  Mrs.  Eddy  impudently  would  destroy  the 
proving  power  that  Christ  attaches  to  the 
works  He  performed  among  the  people  of 
Palestine. 

Jesus  Christ  the  Good  Samaritan.     Christian 
Science  the  Proud  Priest. 

Christian  Science  claims  to  be  the  religion 
of  Jesus  Christ.  But  what  bears  it  in  common 
with  suffering  humanity's  greatest  Friend,  to 
bear  out  its  claim?  Jesus  Christ  is  the  good 
Samaritan  who,  touched  with  compassion, 
bound  the  wounds  of  the  man  fallen  among 
robbers,  and  bore  him  to  a  haven  of  rest  and 
peace.  Eddyism,  however,  like  the  haughty 
and  supercilious  priest  and  levite,  passes  by 
the  afflicted  and  unfortunate  traveler  on  the 
way  of  life,  without  a  tear  or  throb  of  pity, 
without  moving  a  hand  to  close  his  bleeding 
wounds,  without  administering  a  particle  of 
medicine  to  revive  his  drooping  strength,  with- 
out an  asylum  or  hospital  to  its  credit  to  house 


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him  during  the  days  of  convalescence.  For  the 
dictum  of  Christian  Science  is,  "Sympathy 
with  sin,  sorrow,  and  sickness  would  dethrone 
God.'' 

The  most  that  Christian  Science  does  is  to 
induce  man  to  say,  "There  is  no  pain,  there  is 
no  death."  This,  however,  compels  him  to 
play  the  hypocrite,  stultify  his  intellect,  forfeit 
the  service  and  aid  of  anaesthetics  and  surgery, 
thus  a  hundred  fold  to  increase  his  sufferings, 
and  for  all  this  misery  to  pay  hard  cash. 

Now  judge  ye,  if  this  system  that  closes  its 
ears  to  the  cry  of  sick  children  dying  on  their 
mothers'  bosoms,  that  dries  up  the  fountains  of 
sympathy  and  love  for  your  sick  and  invalid, 
that,  if  it  could  obtain  full  dominion,  would 
change  a  civilized  and  Christian  land  into  a 
pagan  India  with  the  horrors  of  the  Kiver 
Ganges,  be  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ,^ — or  if 
it  be  not  preparing  itself  for  the  curse  that 
.will  fall  from  His  own  sacred  lips  on  the 
final  day:  "I  was  hungry,  and  you  gave  Me 
not  to  eat;  I  was  thirsty,  and  you  gave  Me  not 
to  drink;  I  was  a  stranger,  and  you  took  Me 
not  in;  naked,  and  you  covered  Me  not:  sick 
and  in  prison,  and  you  did  not  visit  Me." 
(Matt.  25:42,  43.)  "Depart  from  Me  you 
cursed  into   everlasting  fire."      (Matt.   25:41.) 

Finally  cast  one  more  glance  upon  the  system 
of  Mrs.  Eddy  as  far  as   she  claims  it  to  be 


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*' Science."  Not  only  did  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy, 
during  the  days  when  as  a  gray-haired,  stiff- 
jointed,  old  and  palsied  woman,  she  hid  herself 
from  public  gaze,  prove  a  living  embodiment 
of  the  errors  of  her  teachings,  but  now  above 
all  does  her  corpse,  lying  in  the  cold  and  moul- 
dering grave  at  Mt.  Auburn,  prove  to  absolute 
conclusiveness  that  her  "Science"  also  is  des- 
tined to  the  same  fate  of  decay  and  oblivion. 


MAN  IS  INCAPABLE  OF  SIN 


"If  we  say  that  we  have  no  sin,  zve  deceive  ourselves,  and 
the  truth  is  not  in  us."     I  John  1 :8. 

In  the  Garden  of  Eden  man  first  sinned. 
Direful  and  terrible  was  the  punishment  that 
fell  upon  him  from  the  lips  of  the  angered 
Almighty.  But  did  man  profit  by  its  infliction! 
No!  Despite  the  fact  that  he  was  exiled  by  the 
avenging  angel  to  wander  over  the  barren 
wastes  of  the  plain  and  through  the  valleys, 
replete  with  thorns  and  thistles,  still  his  record 
quite  consistently  has  been  one  of  rebellion  and 
transgression  and  sin. 

In  the  Past  Sinning  Man  Bemoaned  His  Fall. 

Still  if  in  times  gone  by  man  sinningly  erred, 
he  was  ashamed  of  his  transgressions.  The 
first  parents  after  their  fall  sought  conceal- 
ment in  the  shrubbery  of  the  Garden;  Cain, 
haunted  by  the  cry  of  his  brother's  blood,  in 
remorse  wandered  over  the  face  of  the  earth. 
David  bemoaned  his  sins  in  ashes  and  sack- 
cloth. Nay,  even  the  renegade  Apostle  con- 
fessed, ^'I  have  betrayed  innocent  blood,"  and 


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maddened  by  the   enormity   of  his   guilt   sus- 
pended himself  with  a  halter. 

In  This  Age  Some  Deny  Their  Guilt. 

Through  the  centuries  the  drama  of  sin  and 
crime  continues.  Today  also  men  sin,  yield  to 
the  seductions  of  the  lying  serpent,  transgress 
the  Law  Divine.  But  behold,  some  in  this  late 
age  even  go  farther.  They  not  only  violate 
the  Commandments,  but  in  their  insolence  and 
anarchy  turn  to  the  Almighty  Lawgiver  and 
Sovereign  God,  and  declare  they  have  not 
sinned. 

Man  Incapable  of  Sin. 

Thus  spoke  in  New  England  a  woman,  who 
declared  in  her  book  ("Science  and  Health," 
pg.  459,  74  ed.)  :  ''Man  is  incapable  of  sin." 
(Pg.  480):  "Evil  is  an  illusion.  It  is  false 
belief."  "The  only  reality  of  sin  is  the  awful 
fact  that  unrealities  seem  real."  ("Science 
and  Health,"  pg.  456,  74  ed.) 

The  tragedy  of  sin,  accordingly,  that  in  our 
belief,  has  filled  the  world  with  moan  and  sigh, 
destroyed  in  man  the  bloom  of  innocence  and 
streaked  the  pages  of  history  with  the  scarlet 
of  crime,  and  rendered  the  world  a  stench  in 
the  nostrils  of  Jehovah,  so  that  only  the  life- 
blood  of  His  Son  shed  in  sacrifice  saved  it  from 
being  hurled  into  perdition — is  not  real,  but  a 


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mere    pliantasmal    picture    thrown    upon    the 
screen  of  the  imagination. 

Christian  Science  Not  Irksome. 

Need  we  now  marvel  that  in  this  age,  chaf- 
ing under  the  yoke  of  the  Commandments, 
snarling  at  the  restraint  of  spirit  over  passion 
and  flesh,  assailing  the  lofty  ideals  of  morality, 
as  superstition  born  of  priestcraft,  such  a  doc- 
trine should  find  wide  acceptance!  For  if  ^^man 
is  incapable  of  sin,"  then  he  never  sins.  If 
he  never  sins,  then  there  is  no  guilt.  If  there 
is  no  guilt,  then  no  just  condemnation  is  pos- 
sible. 

The    Tendency   of   the   Doctrine    of   Christian 
Science  Relative  to'  Sin. 

Not  for  a  moment  will  I  affirm  that  Chris- 
tian Scientists  love  not  virtue,  cherish  not 
chastity,  exalt  not  honesty.  Still  if  they  are 
chaste  and  honest  and  pure,  it  is  not  by  means 
or  because  of  Christian  Science,  but  rather, 
and  I  shall  not  hesitate  to  utter  it,  in  spite  of 
Christian  Science.  For  beguiled  oftentimes  by 
the  specious  promise  of  obtaining  health  of 
body  and  serenity  of  soul,  they  have  unfor- 
tunately hearkened  to  the  voice  of  a  teacher, 
announcing  a  doctrine,  which,  if  literally  re- 
duced to  practice  and  consistently  carried  out, 
would  break  down  every  barrier  and  restraint, 


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eliminate  every  boundary  line  between  virtue 
and  vice,  open  the  flood  gates  of  impurity,  and 
give  free  rein  to  degeneracy  and  crime. 

Christian  Science  Destructive   of  the  Ethical, 
Moral  and  Judicial  Sciences. 

We  have  witnessed  Mrs.  Eddy,  maintaining 
the  non-existence  of  matter  and  sickness,  assail 
the  physical,  psychological  and  medical  sci- 
ences. In  denying  the  reality  of  evil  and  sin 
she  has  formed  a  new  plank,  and  with  it  she 
threatens  destruction  to  the  ethical  and  judicial 
sciences. 

If  there  exists  no  line  of  demarcation  be- 
tween good  and  evil,  if  man  is  incapable  of 
exercising  free  choice  for  good  or  evil,  and, 
consequently,  is  not  a  moral  and  a  responsible 
being,  if  sin  is  not  only  not  a  fact,  but  not  so 
much  as  a  possibility,  what  remains  of  the 
science  of  ethics  and  morality? 

Upon  the  human  heart  nature  has  impressed 
the  rudiments  of  the  moral  law.  From  these 
primary  laws  the  Sages  of  antiquity,  the 
Fathers  of  the  early  Christian  centuries,  the 
Schoolmen  of  the  medieval  ages,  the  teachers 
in  modern  theological  seminaries  and  colleges 
of  law,  have  drawn  further  conclusions,  more 
minute  and  defined,  and  have  elaborated  a  code, 
calculated  to  make  the  world  and  mankind  more 
honest  and  gentle  and  pure.    But  if  the  tenets 


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of  Mrs.  Eddy  be  correct,  then  the  moralists 
have  contributed  their  time  and  energy  in 
rearing  sciences  whose  foundations  rest  upon 
illusions — nay,  we  could  charge  them  with 
having  placed  all  the  world  under  the  tyran- 
nical sway  of  an  erroneous  and  false  con- 
science. 

Nor  is  this  all.  If  ' '  man  is  incapable  of  sin, ' ' 
what  purpose  and  object  is  there  in  judicial 
science?  For  if  there  is  no  sin,  there  can  be 
no  guilt.  Where  then  the  sense  of  endeavoring 
to  establish  guilt?  Moreover,  if  there  is  no 
guilt,  where  the  right  and  the  guarantee  to 
pass  condemnation  and  inflict  punishment?  If 
the  whole  world  be  as  crimeless  and  sinless  as 
Mrs.  Baker  Eddy  conceives  it,  why  should  civ- 
ilized lands  maintain  at  an  enormous  expense 
judiciary  systems?  All  fail  of  object  and  pur- 
pose. 

If  the  Criminal  Be  a  Christian  Scientist. 

A  few  weeks  ago  there  was  perpetrated  in 
the  city  of  San  Francisco  a  damnable  outrage, 
that  bespattered  with  blood  the  pavement  of 
Market  Street  and  littered  it  with  shattered 
bone  and  bleeding  limbs.  A  mingled  feeling  of 
horror  and  indignation  arose  from  every  normal 
heart.  Every  effort  that  commonwealth  can 
exert,  was  made  to  apprehend  the  villain  and 


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to  convict  him  of  his  crime  in  order  that  sen- 
tence may  be  passed  upon  him. 

I  am  expressing  no  opinion  as  to  the  identity 
of  the  culprit.  But  if  he  or  she  be  a  consistent 
Eddyite  thus  may  the  case  be  argued:  ''Those 
bystanders,  hale  and  sound  that  afternoon,  but 
now  lying  in  their  graves,  were  neither  maimed 
nor  killed.  Whyf  Because  'no  breakage  nor 
dislocation  can  really  occur'  ('Science  and 
Health,'  pg.  402)  and  'there  is  no  death.' 
('Science  and  Health,'  pg.  426,  74  ed.)  More- 
over, though  I  constructed  and  set  off  that 
infernal  machine,  I  committed  no  sin  and  con- 
tracted no  guilt.  Why  I  Because  'man  is  in- 
capable of  sin.'  ('Science  and  Health,'  pg. 
459,  74  ed.)  Hence  you  cannot  judge  me  guilty 
nor  impose  a  penalty."  That  man  may  be 
convicted  by  the  testimony  of  a  thousand  wit- 
nesses ;  he  may  confess  his  deed  and  crime  with 
his  own  lips;  yet  if  Christian  Science  be 
adopted,  thus  he  may  argue ;  and  if  Mrs.  Eddy 
be  also  our  teacher,  we  must  accept  his  argu- 
ments and  conclusions,  and  bestow  upon  him 
the  kiss  of  peace. 

Justice  Blinded — Anarchy  Rampant. 

With  bated  breath  and  harrowing  sense  of 
fear  we  witness  to  what  lengths  the  theories  of 
Mrs.  Eddy  would  lead  us.  Not  a  murderer  or 
villain,   not  a  degenerate   or   adulterer,  not   a 


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robber  or  embezzler,  but  with  whom  we  should 
fraternize  and  whom  we  should  clasp  in  loving 
embrace  as  our  innocent  brother.  Not  a  prose- 
cuting attorney,  but  who  is  obtaining  money 
under  false  pretenses.  Not  a  judge,  who  inflicts 
punishment,  but  who  is  inflicting  suffering  upon 
the  innocent,  and  should  be  stripped  of  his 
ermine.  Not  a  criminal  behind  prison  bars, 
but  who,  though  his  hands  be  reddened  with 
the  blood  of  his  brother,  and  though  he  may 
have  robbed  woman  of  her  fairest  flower,  may 
not  plead  that  the  prison  doors  be  flung  open 
and  liberty  be  granted  him.  Not  a  State  peni- 
tentiary, but  whose  walls  should  be  razed  and 
reduced  to  smouldering  ruins.  Thus  from  her 
pedestal  the  heroic  figure  of  justice,  upholding 
the  scales  and  the  sword,  would  be  hurled  to 
fragments  on  the  pavement  below.  The  de- 
mand of  the  creditor  would  be  in  vain,  the 
pleading  of  the  orphaned  and  helpless  disre- 
garded, the  cry  of  outraged  innocence  choked, 
— and  grim-visaged  and  bloody-eyed  sin  would 
hold  reign  in  this  night  of  license. 

There  lurk  in  the  dark  haunts  of  the  city, 
there  stalk  about  past  the  midnight  hour,  some 
who  would  welcome  this  advent  of  anarchy, — 
but  we  and,  we  doubt  not,  all  respectable 
Christian  Scientists  are  stricken  with  horror 
at  its  mere  possibility.  Yet  thither  would  soci- 
ety hasten,  if  despite  the  testimony  of  our  con- 


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science  the  tenets  of  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy,  viz., 
''man  is  incapable  of  sin"  and  ''evil  is  an  illu- 
sion," were  accorded  belief,  and  were  to  be- 
come the  norm  and  standard  of  our  lives  and 
actions. 

The  Ten  Commandments  Not  a  Joke. 

But  besides  the  catastrophe  that  would  ensue 
upon  the  adoption  of  the  tenet  of  Eddyism  re- 
garding sin,  there  are  further  reasons,  namely, 
scriptural,  that  should  impel  us  forever  to  re- 
ject the  teaching  that  sin  is  an  illusion.  Above 
reigns  a  Sovereign  Lord  and  God,  whose  wis- 
dom and  omnipotence  fashioned  and  made  us. 
We  are  His  creatures  and  dependents.  On 
Mt.  Sinai,  amid  the  blinding  flash  of  lightning 
and  deafening  peal  of  thunder,  He  gave  the  ten 
Commandments  engraven  upon  two  tablets  of 
stone.  Now,  to  transgress  those  Divine  Com- 
mandments, is  either  a  sin  or  not  a  sin.  If  it 
is  a  sin,  then  Mrs.  Eddy's  theory,  viz.,  "Man 
is  incapable  of  sin,"  and  "Evil  is  an  illusion," 
is  false.  If  it  is  not  a  sin,  and  Mrs.  Baker 
Eddy  is  correct,  then  the  Almighty  Legislator 
must  have  been  in  jesting  mood,  and  the  heav- 
ens lighted  up  with  lightning  flashes,  with  the 
old  prophet  of  the  past  Dispensation  trembling 
with  awe,  merely  a  dramatic  setting  to  empha- 
size the  farce. 

But  why  did  not  the  Divine  Legislator  and 


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His  prophet  tell  ns  that  merely  a  joke  was 
being  passed  upon  the  human  race?  Why  did 
not  Moses  returning  from  the  Mount  proclaim 
to  the  sons  of  Israel  that  the  ten  Command- 
ments were  merely  plays  and  outbursts  of 
humor  on  the  part  of  Jehovah?  Why,  on  the 
contrary,  did  he  inscribe  them  in  the  Bible,  the 
most  serious  book  ever  written?  Why  did  God 
Almighty  Himself  instill  the  fear  into  our 
heart,  that  every  time  we  transgressed  those 
Commandments,  we  committed  sin,  we  incurred 
His  displeasure  and  were  rendering  ourselves 
liable  to  the  flames  of  hell?  Why?  Because, 
as  matter  of  fact,  and  despite  Mrs.  Eddy,  they 
are  not  a  joke,  but  as  seriously  made  and  im- 
posed as  God  alone  could  make  and  impose 
them.  The  God  of  omnipotence,  justice,  sanc- 
tity— jesting  with  and  fooling  His  creatures!! 
The  High  Priestess  of  Concord  may  endeavor 
to  reduce  the  Almighty  God  to  this  humiliating 
position,  by  telling  us,  we  incur  no  sin  when 
we  transgress  His  commands  and  are  foolish 
for  experiencing  pang  and  scruple.  But  we 
regard  her  action  as  blasphemy.  We  recoil 
from  it.  We  shudder  at  the  mere  thought  of 
it.  We  believe  that  God  Almighty  was  serious, 
nay,  intensely  serious. 

Why  Punishes  God  the  Sinner? 
Moreover,  if  sin  is  an  illusion,  why  does  God 


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inflict  punishment  for  its  commission!  The 
pages  of  the  Bible  burn,  nay,  curl  and  turn 
crisp  with  the  fire  and  wrath  breathed  upon 
those  who  thwart  the  will  of  the  Creator  and 
break  His  Commandments.  In  the  13th  chap- 
ter of  the  Book  of  Isaias,  the  Prophet  predicts 
the  desolation  to  descend  upon  the  city  of 
Babylon  in  the  following  words:  ''Behold,  the 
day  of  the  Lord  shall  come,  a  cruel  day,  and 
full  of  indignation  and  of  wrath  and  of  fury, 
to  lay  the  land  desolate,  and  to  destroy  the  sin- 
ners thereof  out  of  it."  In  the  19th  chapter 
of  Genesis  is  described  the  storm  of  fire  and 
brimstone,  that  swept  over  the  cities  of  the 
plain,  Sodom  and  Gomorrah,  leaving  direful 
devastation  in  its  wake. 

Why  Suffer  the  Damned f 

But  why  speak  of  the  flames  of  earth?  Could 
we  but  thrust  aside  the  curtains  of  eternity, 
and  gaze  into  those  fiery  depths  where  languish 
the  disembodied  souls !  Why  that  holocaust — 
why  those  lurid  flames  —  why  those  soul- 
harrowing  torments'?  Those,  that  suffer  there- 
in, lived  their  days  upon  the  earth.  They, 
indeed,  transgressed  the  Commandments  Di- 
vine, deprived  the  widow  of  her  portion, 
plunged  the  cold  steel  into  their  brother's 
heart,  spent  their  nights  in  ribaldry  and  las- 
civiousness.    But,  if  Mrs.  Eddy's  contention  is 


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true  that  man  is  incapable  of  sin,  and  that  evil 
is  an  illusion,  evidently  they  incurred  no  guilt. 
Why  then  were  they  condemned!  Why  upon 
them  was  passed  the  irate  sentence,  '*  Depart 
from  me  ye  accursed  into  everlasting  fire"? 
Has  God  lost  His  sense  of  justice  and  stripped 
Himself  of  mercy?  Like  fiend  and  monster 
does  He  gloat  over  the  sufferings  of  those  who 
were  "incapable  of  sin"?    No. 

Ah,  those  very  agonizing  souls  in  the  flames 
proclaim  His  justice.  Could  once  their  voice 
be  heard  rising  from  that  pit  of  fire  and  dun- 
geon of  hell,  they  would  proclaim  to  us  whether 
or  not  sin  is  a  reality.  In  the  mad  paroxysms 
of  their  crimes  they  may  have  declared  to  God 
Almighty  and  boasted  to  man,  ''Sin  is  false 
belief,"  but  the  flaring  fires  of  hell  have  en- 
lightened them  to  know  better,  namely,  that  sin 
is  reality,  nay  dread  reality. 

Why  Died  Christ  on  Calvary? 
\^  Mrs.  Eddy  Beneath  the  Cross? 

I  close  this  lecture  with  the  scene  on  Mount 
Caivary.  The  sun  has  slightly  passed  the 
meridian.  A  cry  startles  the  appalling  still- 
ness, "My  God,  my  God,  why  hast  Thou  for- 
saken me?"  Nailed  to  the  Tree  of  shame 
hangs  the  Son  of  God.  His  sacred  head  is 
encircled  with  thorns.  His  countenance  is 
swollen    and   His    eyes    are    shot    with   blood. 


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From  ^ve  deep  and  gaping  wounds  gushes 
forth  in  crimson  streams  His  life-blood.  Oh! 
that  Priestess  of  New  England  who  nineteen 
centuries  later  proclaimed  a  religion  in  His 
name  and  exploited  the  love  we  bear  Him 
for  commercial  aggrandizement, — oh!  had  she 
stood  that  hot  sultry  afternoon  beneath  that 
cross,  with  the  hot  and  ruddy  drops  from  the 
veins  of  the  dying  God-man  trickling,  nay, 
gushing  forth  and  drenching  her  garments, 
would  she  from  beneath  that  cross,  I  ask,  have 
proclaimed  to  the  world  that  He,  the  Son  of 
the  living  God,  was  dying  for  "mere  nothing- 
ness,'' for  a  "false  belief"? 

So  bitter  was  the  chalice  into  which  had  been 
pressed  the  sins  and  iniquities  of  the  world, 
that  even  His  own  stout  heart  quailed,  and 
from  His  own  sacred  lips  escaped  the  cry, 
"May  this  chalice  pass  from  me,"  so  intensely 
hated  His  Heavenly  Father  sin,  that  He  hesi- 
tated not  to  smite  with  His  wrath  His  only 
begotten  Son,  so  deeply  had  sin  outraged  the 
Divine  and  Supreme  Majesty  that  only  then 
was  the  anger  of  the  Father  of  Heaven  Ap- 
peased when  the  thorn-crowned  head  of  His 
Son  bowed  in  death,  and  still  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy, 
the  foundress  of  Christian  Science,  declared  to 
the  world  that  sin  is  an  illusion.  Oh !  may  that 
blood  that  she  contemns  as  having  been  spilled 
for  a  mere  illusion  cry  not  out  against  her  on 
the  day  of  wrath  and  judgment. 


CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE.  THE  CULT  OF 
THE  INFIDEL 


"Your  eyes  shall  be  opened;  and  you  shall  be  as  Gods." 
Gen.  3:5. 

Men,  denying  the  truth  of  the  creation  of 
the  universe,  have  erred  in  either  of  two  direc- 
tions. They  have  either  denied  the  existence 
of  God,  or  have  exalted  the  universe  to  the 
supreme  plane  of  the  Deity. 

Both,  so  to  speak,  stand  on  a  high  and  com- 
manding promontory,  jutting  out  from  some 
lofty  mountain.  Below  them  they  behold  the 
deep  and  wide  valleys,  the  rolling  plains  and 
prairies,  the  sparkling  lakes  and  winding 
rivers,  the  cities  and  hamlets,  with  the  thou- 
sands that  there  live  and  labor.  Both  men 
affirm  that  all  the  magnificent  panorama  of  sky 
and  land  and  water  below  them,  is  uncreated 
and  self-existent.  The  one,  however,  denies 
there  is  a  God,  spiritual  and  infinite  in  nature, 
and  exclaims,  ^'God  created  man?  No  such 
thing.  The  monads  developed  him.  The  heav- 
ens declare  the  glory  of  God?  No  such  thing. 
They  declare  only  the  glory  of  the  astronomer. 


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We  have  no  need  of  the  hypothesis  of  God. 
The  divine  existence  is  not  only  unnecessary, 
but  absolutely  unreal — a  creature  of  the  human 
imagination.'^  Thus  has  spoken  the  atheist 
and  materialist.  The  other,  however,  maintains 
that  all  that  they  behold  is  God.  This  man  is 
a  pantheist.  Both,  denying  the  record  of  the 
Scriptures,  are  manifestly  at  variance  with  the 
teachings  of  Christianity  and  are  unquestion- 
ably infidels. 

Infidelity! 

Infidelity!  a  stinging  and  mean  charge,  and 
emphatically  such  if  we  predicate  it  of  one 
claiming  to  possess  a  superior  understanding, 
and  professing  to  come  in  the  name  of  God  for 
the  alleviation  of  woe  and  misery  oppressing 
mankind.  True,  Mrs.  Eddy  stoutly  cast  back 
this  charge,  and  her  disciples  today  hotly 
resent  our  making  the  imputation.  We  do  not 
desire  to  stir  up  their  wrath  and  indignation, 
but  if  we  study  the  teachings  of  Christian 
Science  regarding  God  and  His  nature,  we 
are  constrained  to  make  the  above-mentioned 
charge. 

Christian  Science,  Dangerous  Form  of 
Pantheism, 

Quasi-parodoxical  expressions,  quasi-philo- 
sophical terms,  nugatory  statements,  flat  con- 


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tradictions  form  one  amazing  mass  of  tangle 
and  confusion  in  the  writings  of  Mrs.  Eddy. 
We  read  and  endeavor  to  understand,  but  the 
mind  grows  bewildered,  and  is  overwhelmed 
with  a  feeling  similar  to  that  which  neuritis 
produces  in  the  body.  Still,  if  at  the  conclusion 
the  reader  retains  the  use  of  his  faculties  and 
is  not  hypnotized,  he  lays  down  the  book  with 
the  conviction  that,  though  it  is  labeled  ^'Chris- 
tian," it  nevertheless  contains  an  admixture  of 
Brahmin  Theosophy,  ancient  Gnosticism,  Mani- 
chseism,  and,  forming  the  largest  portion,  Hin- 
doo Pantheism. 

Mrs.  Eddy's  Egregious  Blunder.     Her  Arbi- 
trary Definition  of  Pantheism.    Pan- 
theism Correctly  Defined. 

Mrs.  Eddy  answering  the  question,  whether 
or  not  Christian  Science  is  pantheistic,  affirms, 
''Christian  Science  refutes  Pantheism,  finds 
Spirit  neither  in  matter  nor  in  the  modes  of 
mortal  mind.''  ("No  and  Yes,"  pg.  15, 
95  ed.).  Mrs.  Eddy  frames  a  novel  and" 
a  convenient  definition  of  her  own,  and  then 
quite  readily  frees  herself  from  the  charge  of 
being  a  pantheist.  She  indicates  that  panthe- 
ism is  the  belief  of  spirit  and  intelligence 
existing  in  matter.  Now,  if  this  be  pantheism, 
it  is  evident  that  Christian  Science,  denying 
matter  and  hence  intelligence  in  matter,  is  any- 


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thing  but  pantheistic.  But  Mrs.  Eddy  has  elab- 
orated an  arbitrary,  and  not  only  that,  but  a 
wrong  definition  of  pantheism.  Any  culprit 
before  the  bar  could  frame  his  own  defini- 
tion of  a  crime  and  then  demand  that  he  be 
declared  innocent.  For  instance,  a  robber 
could  assert  that  theft  means  the  slaying  of  a 
man, — and  then  argue,  "I  have  killed  no  man, 
— therefore,  I  am  no  thief.''  We  would  have 
no  mercy  on  that  man,  but  judge  him  according 
to  the  definition  which  really  sets  forth  the 
nature  of  the  crime.  So  also  Mrs.  Eddy  must 
answer  to  the  charge  of  pantheism,  not  as  she 
defines  it,  but  according  to  that  what  all  men 
believe  it  to  be,  namely,  the  doctrine  which 
asserts  that  God  is  the  only  substance,  of  which 
the  universe  and  man  are  only  manifestations, 
— the  doctrine,  accordingly,  which  identifies 
God  and  the  universe,  and  is  accompanied  with 
the  denial  of  God's  personality.  Some  panthe- 
ists maintain  and  assert  the  existence  of  mat- 
ter; others,  as  idealist  pantheists,  deny  it. 
However,  they  all  agree  that  all  that  exists, 
whether  it  be  material  or  not,  is  God. 

Pure  Pantheism. 

Hence  if  Mrs.  Eddy  declares,  ''Nothing  pos- 
sesses reality  or  substance,  except  Mind,  God,'' 
how  can  she  escape  the  charge!  In  "Science 
and  Health,"  p.  466,    she   asks   the   question, 


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''What  are  spirits  and  souls!"  She  answers, 
'/To  human  belief  they  are  personalities  con- 
stituted of  mind  and  matter,  life  and  death, 
truth  and  error,  good  and  evil.  The  term 
souls  or  spirits  is  as  improper  as  the  term 
gods.  Soul  or  Spirit  signifies  Deity,  and  noth- 
ing else.  There  is  no  finite  soul  or  spirit." 
According  to  her  own  words,  therefore,  there 
is  only  one  soul  or  spirit,  "since  the  term  souls 
or  spirits  is  as  improper  as  the  term  gods." 
This  one  soul  or  spirit  is  not  finite  (there  is 
no  finite  soul  or  spirit),  but  "signifies  the 
Deity,  and  nothing  else."  Do  we  grasp  the 
meaning  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  words?  If  so,  what 
do  they  embody  but  pantheism,  bald  and  bla- 
tant, pantheism  that  echoes  the  error  of  cen- 
turies before  Christ,  namely,  "Brahma  is  all, 
and  all  is  Brahma,  and  whatever  is  not  Brahma 
is  a  dream  and  an  illusion"? 

Christian  Science  Denies  God's  Creation. 

In  the  teachings  of  Mrs.  Eddy  there  lives 
only  one  being — uncreated  and  uncreating;  un- 
created— because  if  that  one  being  were  cre- 
ated, his  creation  would  demand  the  existence 
of  a  being  who  created  him,  and  hence  there 
would  be  two  beings;  uncreating — because  if 
the  uncreated  being  created,  then  his  creature 
would  mean  the  existence  of  another  being,  and 
hence,  again,  there  would  be  two  beings.    Mrs. 


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Eddy,  therefore,  necessarily  must  eliminate  the 
ideas  of  creator  and  creature. 

The    Term    "Expression'' — Pantheistic. 

Christian  Science  writers,  in  the  endeavor  to 
save  their  "Mother''  from  the  ugly  charge  and 
conviction  of  being  pantheistic,  attempt  the 
explanation  that  the  universe  is  an  expression 
of  the  Divine  Mind.  But  what  meaning  can 
the  term  "expression''  have  in  Mrs.  Eddy's 
system!  Christian  Science  negates  the  exist- 
ence of  matter,  and  teaches  that  all  is  "Spirit," 
and  whatever  is  not  this  "Spirit,"  is  unreal. 
Consequently  the  term  "expression"  when  ap- 
plied to  man  and  the  universe  can  only  mean 
that  man  and  universe  form  a  certain  mode  of 
being  of  this  one  and  only  existing  "Spirit." 
They  are,  so  to  speak,  what  bubbles  are  on 
the  bosom  of  the  ocean.  But  as  waves  and 
bubbles  and  ocean  form  in  reality  only  one 
being,  namely,  ocean — so  also  whether  the  uni- 
verse be  called  an  expression  or  not,  it  and 
God  form  only  one  being,  and  according  to  the 
declarations  of  Christian  Science  this  being  is 
God.    "God  is  all,  and  all  is  God." 

Appalling  Absurdities.    Man  Is  God. 

To  what  appalling  absurdities  the  pantheism 
lurking  in  the  teachings  of  Eddyism  would  lead 
us,  we  need  not  indicate:  Mrs.  Eddy  does  it 


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herself.  Writing  in  ' '  Science  and  Health, ' '  pg. 
619  of  Index  (74  ed.),  she  says,  ^'He  is  self- 
existent  and  eternal,  like  God."  Man,  accord- 
ingly, has  neither  origin  nor  beginning.  Be- 
fore he  stepped  upon  this  globe,  he  pre-existed. 
''If  man  did  not  exist  before  the  material  or- 
ganization began,  he  could  not  exist  after  the 
body  is  disintegrated.  If  we  live  after  death 
and  are  immortal,  we  must  have  lived  before 
birth,  for  if  Life  ever  had  any  beginning,  it 
must  also  have  an  ending,  even  according  to  the 
calculations  of  natural  science."  (''Science 
and  Health,"  pg.  429.)  He  had  neither  a 
father,  who  begot  him,  nor  a  mother,  of  whose 
flesh  he  was  conceived,  and  who  bore  him.  He 
never  was  young  nor  does  he  grow  old.  "He 
has  neither  birth  nor  death."  ("Science  and 
Health,"  pg.  244.) 

If  through  some  form  of  mortal  error  you 
believe  yourself  at  some  time  to  have  rested 
as  an  infant  upon  your  mother's  bosom,  you 
were  not  one  fraction  of  a  moment  younger 
than  you  are  at  this  present  moment,  even 
though  the  snows  of  life's  winter  be  fast  gath- 
ering over  your  brow.  "Man  in  Science  is 
neither  young  nor  old.  He  has  neither  birth 
nor  death."  ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  244.) 
What  wonder  that  Christian  Science  has  grown 
so  popular!  Surely  a  happy  find  for  those 
ashamed  of  their  age.     For  Christian  Science 


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says :  ' '  Never  record  ages.  Chronological  data 
are  no  part  of  the  vast  forever.  Time-tables 
of  birth  and  death  are  so  many  conspiracies 
against  manhood  and  womanhood. "  (^ ^  Science 
and  Health/' pg.  246.) 

God  Is  One.     All  Men  Form  One  Being. 

Vain  and  false  is  also  every  census.  The 
human  family  never  added  a  new  member,  nor 
did  it  ever  lose  one.  In  fact,  in  Christian  Sci- 
ence we  dare  not  speak  of  a  human  family. 
For  a  family  presupposes  a  plurality  of  per- 
sons, whereas  in  ''Science,''  since  all  men  are 
God  and  God  is  only  one,  there  is  only  one 
being.  Accordingly,  just  and  unjust  are  only 
one;  saint  and  sinner  are  only  one;  wise  and 
unwise  are  only  one;  rich  and  poor  are  only 
one.  Thus,  Cain  and  Abel  were  not  separate 
individuals,  but  identical;  Caesar  and  Brutus 
were  not  distinct,  but  identical;  Jesus  and 
Judas  were  not  distinct,  but  identical;  nay,  the 
Kaiser  of  Germany  and  the  Czar  of  Russia  are 
not  separate  individuals,  but  identical;  finally, 
Mrs.  Eddy  and  you  and  I  are  only  one — and 
this  one  being  is  the  one  Divine  and  Infinite 
Spirit. 

Accordingly,  when  Cain  slew  Abel  it  was  the 
one  being  both  killing  and  being  killed;  when 
Judas  betrayed  Christ,  it  was  the  one  being- 
betraying    and    being   betrayed.      When    Mrs. 


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Eddy  pronounces  her  teachings  scientific  and 
Christian  and  I  designate  them  as  humbug  and 
blasphemy,  it  is  the  one  being  simultaneously 
calling  them  truth  and  error. 

God  Is  Man. 

Thus  far  we  have  predicated  of  man  the  at- 
tributes that  belong  to  God.  But  since  man 
and  God  are  identical,  we  may  pursue  a  differ- 
ent course  of  argument  and  attribute  to  God 
all  that  pertains  to  man. 

Blasphemy!    Appalling! 

Accordingly,  God  is  the  grim-visaged  mur- 
derer; God  is  the  glib-tongued  liar;  God  is  the 
smooth-shaven  adulterer;  God  is  the  cactus- 
bearded  villain  of  Mexico.  Moreover,  since 
God  is  identical  with  all  these  men,  it  follows 
that  all  their  actions  also  are  those  of  God. 
When  the  murderer,  therefore,  dips  his  hands 
in  the  blood  of  his  fellow  man,  it  is  God  who 
murders;  when  the  adulterer  crosses  the 
threshold  of  a  home  and  there  spreads  the 
slime  of  his  impurity,  it  is  God  that  commits 
adultery;  when  the  villains  in  Mexico  dese- 
crate sanctuaries,  mutilate  men  and  violate  vir- 
gins, it  is  God  who  commits  those  outrages. 
Hence  all  the  misery,  all  the  woe,  all  the  im- 
morality that  has  filled  the  world  with  shame 
and  despair,  have  emanated  from  the  one  Infi- 


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nite  Being.  Behold  the  God  whom  Mrs.  Baker 
Eddy  would  set  up  for  veneration  and  love  to 
those  who  follow  her  voice.  Perhaps  she  does 
it  not  intentionally,  but  it  is  a  necessary  con- 
sequence of  her  teachings. 

Moreover,  since  '^God  is  all,  and  all  is  God,'' 
when  man  is  sick,  when  the  typhoid  patient 
raves  in  delirium,  when  the  leper  smells  with 
the  malodor  of  the  grave,  when  the  soldier  is 
shot  and  torn  by  shell  and  bullet  on  the  battle- 
field, when  the  suicide  turns  the  gun  upon  him- 
self, God  it  is  who  is  sick,  who  is  stricken  with 
fever,  who  is  wounded,  who  commits  suicide, 
who  is  killed. 

''Mortal  Mind''  Theory  Offers  No  Refuge, 

Christian  Science  may  try  to  rally  to  the 
defense  and  insist,  ' '  Hold !  sin  and  sickness  and 
death  are  mere  illusions  of  the  mortal  mind." 
But  now  that  '' mortal  mind"  either  exists  or 
does  not  exist.  If  it  does  not  exist,  how  can  it 
harbor  illusions'?  If  it  does  exist,  then,  since 
"God  is  all,  and  all  is  God,"  it  is  identical  with 
Mind,  God.  Mrs.  Eddy  may  have  the  alterna- 
tive of  choosing  either  for  glaring  nonsense  or 
for  shocking  blasphemy. 

The  God  of  Christian  Science  a  Monstrosity. 

Candidly  —  I  think,  were  the  teachings  of 
Mrs.  Eddy  urged  to  their  ultimate  conclusion, 


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we  should  discover  that  Christian  Science  has 
no  God  at  all,  but  that  it  is  a  system  absolutely 
Godless.  For — in  the  light  of  Christian  Sci- 
ence— regard  Him  as  a  Principle,  and  He  is  a 
Principle  self-contradicting,  at  once  right  and 
wrong,  a  nonentity  as  impossible  of  being  as  a 
circle  round  and  square ;  regard  Him  as  a  per- 
son, and  He  is  a  monster  with  truth  and  error 
simultaneously  upon  His  tongue,  breathing  hot 
and  cold  in  the  one  and  the  same  breath,  with 
virtue  and  vice  simultaneously  in  His  heart. 

Christian  Science  Impudently  Assails  the 
Dogma  of  the  Trinity. 

Mrs.  Eddy  has  set  forth  the  dictum,  ''God 
is  all,  and  all  is  God,"  as  the  cardinal  teaching 
of  her  system — and  you  have  beheld  what  she 
has  made  of  God.  And  yet  she  dares  to  assail 
the  supreme  dogma  of  our  Christian  religion, 
namely,  that  of  the  Blessed  Trinity,  saying, 
"The  theory  of  three  persons  in  one  (that  is, 
a  personal  Trinity  or  Tri-unity)  suggests  poly- 
theism, rather  than  the  one  ever-present  'I 
am.'  'Hear,  0  Israel:  the  Lord  our  God  is  one 
Lord.'"  ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  256.) 
But  who  is  she  that  would  insinuate  that  we, 
washed  in  the  waters  of  regeneration  in  the 
name  of  the  Father  and  of  the  Son  and  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  that  we,  believing  in  the  Trinity, 
are  like  the  heathens  and  pagans  of  old  who 


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believed  in  and  worshiped  a  multiplicity  of 
gods?  Who  is  she  that,  raising  her  finger  in 
correction,  would  point  to  our  belief  in  the 
plurality  of  persons  in  the  Deity  as  ^' basic  of 
idolatry''?  No!  we  are  not  heathens,  nor  do 
we  worship  three  gods.  But  more  readily 
would  I  prostrate  myself  before  three  gods 
like  the  pagan  in  the  darkness  of  the  forest, 
than  follow  the  voice  of  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy  and 
worship  no  God  at  all, — or  rather  worship 
every  man,  including  herself,  whom  she  has 
deified. 

Christian  Science  Dethrones  God. 

But  as  a  matter  of  fact  we  worship  one  God 
only,  in  whom  there  are  three  Divine  Persons 
possessing  the  one  Divine  Nature.  We  con- 
fess we  cannot  fathom  or  comprehend  this 
mystery  of  three  persons  possessing  one  Divine 
Nature.  We  accept  it  with  whole-souled  faith, 
we  bow  our  intellects  before  it.  Why?  Be- 
cause God  has  revealed  it,  because  the  Scrip- 
tures contain  it,  and  because  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  proposes  it  to  our  belief. 

But  what  cares  Mrs.  Eddy  of  New  England, 
who  founded  her  own  Church,  for  the  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ?  What  cares  she  for  the  Scroll 
of  God's  Word  when  she  contemns  it  as  a 
dusty  text-book  "no  more  important  to  our 
well-being    than    the    history    of    Europe    and 


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America'"?  Nay,  what  cares  she  for  God,  Him- 
self, when  she  has  dethroned  Him,  reduced 
Him  to  an  impersonal  thing,  called  Principle, 
heaped  upon  Him  all  the  world's  huge  pile  of 
crime  and  sin  and  sickness — and  then  sub- 
merged and  drowned  Him  in  the  ocean  of  crea- 
tion! I  conclude  this  lecture  with  the  words 
of  C.  A.  Dixon:  '^It  (Christian  Science)  is 
guilty,  so  far  as  it  can  be,  of  deicide." 


CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE.  THE  CULT  OF 
THE  UNCHRISTIAN 


"Behold  thou  shalt  conceive  in  thy  zvomb,  and  shalt  bring 
forth  a  son;  and  thou  shalt  call  his  name  Jesus.  He  shall  he 
great,  and  shall  be  called  the  Son  of  the  most  High."  Luke 
1:31,  32. 

During  the  course  of  the  last  few  decades 
advertisement  has  developed  into  a  fine  art. 
Men  of  business  readily  recognize  its  value, 
and  its  progress  has  paved  the  way  to  some 
of  their  most  colossal  successes.  A  medium, 
indifferent  in  its  nature,  it  has  been  employed 
in  the  interests  of  truth,  as  well  as  in  the  serv- 
ice of  fraud.  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy  evidently  was 
not  a  woman  to  lack  the  shrewdness  of  grasp- 
ing the  value  of  this  medium  and  of  utilizing 
it  to  raise  a  towering  fortune.  To  a  people, 
to  whom  no  name  on  earth  or  above  earth  is 
more  sweet  and  dear  than  "Jesus,"  to  a 
people,  for  whom  no  figure  in  history  lives 
more  cherished  than  the  Savior  soothing  the 
afflicted  and  sorrowful  of  Israel, — shrewd  and 
sly  Mrs.  Eddy  realized  that  she  could  sell  her 
''copyrighted"  religion  with  the  largest  success 
and  profit,  if  she  clothed  it  in  the  cover  of 


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Christianity  and  promised  to  bring  back  Christ 
Jesus  into  their  desolate  hearts  and  mournful 
souls. 

Christian  Scientists  Should  Lament  As  Did  the 
So rroiu ing  Magdalene. 

But,  ah,  methinks  she  has  cruelly  and  ruth- 
lessly deceived  and  duped  them.  Mrs.  Eddy 
has  labored  to  convict  us  of  teaching  men  to 
hug  delusions.  But  having  listened  to  this 
woman's  teachings  regarding  the  nature  of 
God,  regarding  the  human  body,  regarding  suf- 
fering and  death,  I  should  say  it  is  she  who 
has  attempted  to  foist  upon  men  a  mere  delu- 
sion, and  who  has  cruelly  swindled  from  out  of 
their  lives  the  true  Christ,  so  that  in  truth  and 
fact  those  who  have  listened  to  her  voice  and 
followed  her  teachings,  should  lament  as  did 
the  sorrowing  Magdalene  at  the  door  of  the 
emj)ty  tomb,  because  her  Lord  had  been  taken 
away. 

Jesus  Christ  the  Mental  Offspring  of  a  Perfect 

Christian  Scientist.     Incarnation  of 

Christ  Not  Miraculous. 

The  two  chief  mysteries  in  the  life  of  the 
God-man  are  undoubtedly  His  Incarnation  and 
His  Death  of  atonement.  Mrs.  Eddy,  indeed, 
retains  the  belief  that  Jesus  Christ  was  born 
of  a  woman  who  had  known  no  man,  and  that 


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His  birth  was  virginal.  But  forthwith  disillu- 
sion your  mind,  that  she  consequently  regards 
it  in  the  same  sacred  light  as  St.  Luke  records 
it  in  his  Gospel,  and  as  we  celebrate  the  event 
on  Christmas  Day.  No,  in  the  bible  of  Mrs. 
Eddy  He  was  but  the  son  of  an  advanced 
Christian  Scientist.  '^  Jesus,"  she  writes,  '^was 
the  offspring  of  Mary's  self-conscious  com- 
munion with  God."  (''Science  and  Health," 
pg.  30.)  Jesus  Christ! — the  mental  offspring 
of  a  woman's  consciousness!  The  Blessed 
Mother  merely  caught  a  gleam  of  Eddyism! 
She  possessed  sufficient  ''Science"  to  create  a 
child  by  mental  generation  and  thus  to  "put 
to  silence  the  material  law  and  its  order  of 
generation."  Her  virginal  delivery  must  be 
considered  precisely  the  same  as  that  of  any 
other  woman  who  obtains  an  adequate  knowl- 
edge of  Christian  Science  and  can  become  a 
virginal  mother.  Hence  there  is  neither  mys- 
tery nor  miracle  surrounding  the  birth  of 
Christ.  "Generation  rests  on  no  sexual  basis." 
("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  274,  74  ed.)  "The 
so-called  substance  of  bone  is  formed  first  by 
the  parent's  mind,  through  self-division.  Soon 
the  child  becomes  a  separate,  individualized 
thought."  This  suffices.  This  moment  Mrs. 
Eddy  should  divest  herself  of  the  robes  of  a 
Christian.    She  has  stolen  them. 


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Jesus  Is  Not  the  Christ.  Dual  Personality. 
In  Christian  thought  and  sentiment  we  wor- 
ship the  Divine  Savior  as  a  Divine  Person,  who 
to  the  Divine  Nature,  that  He  possessed  from 
all  eternity,  joined  the  human  nature,  which  in 
time  He  assumed  of  the  Virgin  Mary.  He  gave 
us  assurance  for  this  belief,  perhaps,  at  the 
most  solemn  moment  of  His  mortal  life.  Stand- 
ing before  the  Sanhedrim,  the  supreme  religious 
tribunal  of  the  Jewish  nation.  He  was  asked  by 
the  High-priest  the  precise  and  unequivocal 
question:  "I  adjure  Thee  by  the  living  God, 
that  Thou  tell  us  if  Thou  be  the  Christ,  the 
Son  of  the  living  God."  And  Jesus  answered 
him,  ^'Thou  hast  said  it."  To  this  categorical 
affirmation  He  added,  "Hereafter  you  shall  see 
the  Son  of  Man  sitting  on  the  right  hand  of  the 
power  of  God  and  coming  in  the  clouds  of 
heaven."  Then  the  High-priest  rent  his  gar- 
ments, and  said,  ''He  has  blasphemed."  Why 
does  not  Mrs.  Eddy  also  rend  her  garments? 
In  her  estimation,  too,  that  man  Jesus  standing 
there,  clad  in  a  body  of  flesh  and  blood,  was  not 
''the  Christ,  the  Son  of  the  living  God."  She 
writes  and  confesses  this,  saying,  "Jesus,  as 
material  manhood,  was  not  the  Christ."  (Misc., 
pg.  84.) 

JesurS  Is  Not  God. 
Jesus,    therefore,    is   not   regarded   by   Mrs. 


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Eddy  as  God,  for  she  says,  ^'A  portion  of  God 
could  not  enter  corporeal  mortal  man,  .  .  . 
God  can  only  be  reflected  by  spiritual,  incor- 
poreal man."  (''Science  and  Health,"  pg.  231, 
74  ed.)  We  can  now  comprehend  how  she 
could  write,  ''At  the  time  when  Jesus  felt  our 
infirmities  He  had  not  conquered  all  the  beliefs 
of  flesh,  or  His  sense  of  material  life,  nor  had 
He  risen  to  His  final  demonstration  of  spiritual 
power."  ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  209,  74 
ed.)  Jesus,  accordingly,  a  plain  mortal  like 
ourselves,  was  steeped  in  materialism  and  an 
individual  deluded  by  mortal  error.  Very 
reverential  words,  Mrs.  Eddy ! 

Compliments  of  Mrs.  Eddy  to  Christ. 

On  the  same  page  in  "Science  and  Health" 
she  writes,  "To  accommodate  Himself  to  im- 
mature ideas  of  spiritual  power,  Jesus  called 
the  body — He  raised  from  the  grave,  'flesh  and 
bones.'  "  On  page  396,  she  added,  "These  in- 
stances show  us  the  concessions  which  Jesus 
was  willing  to  make  to  popular  ignorance." 
For  instance,  "He  sometimes  called  a  disease 
by  name."  ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  396, 
74  ed.)  Mrs.  Eddy  evidently  concedes  that  at 
a  later  period  the  knowledge  of  "Science"  did 
dawn  upon  and  enlighten  the  soul  of  Jesus; 
but  it  seemingly  improved  not  His  morals.  For 
though  Jesus  at  that  precise  time  was  better 


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informed,  still  He  possessed  not  the  courage  of 
His  convictions.  For  He  yielded  and  made 
concessions  to  popular  ignorance.  Nay,  He 
positively  deluded  the  people  by  deliberately 
lying  to  them,  for  though  He  full  well  knew 
that  flesh  and  bone  were  merely  dreams  of 
fancy,  He,  nevertheless,  solemnly  assured  His 
disciples,  ''flesh  and  bones  such  as  you  see  Me 
to  have."     (Luke  24:29.) 

Mrs.  Baker  Eddy  has,  therefore,  given  elesus 
Christ  the  lie.  We  must  associate  her  with 
the  motley  throng  and  mob  that  with  perjured 
oaths  clamored  for  His  condemnation,  because 
"He  perverted  the  nation.'^ 

If  in  the  Mob  before  the  Tribunal  of  Pilate 
There  Had  Been  an  Eddyite! 

The  drama  of  the  passion  opens.  From 
Pilate  to  Herod,  and  from  Herod  to  Pilate 
they  have  dragged  Him.  The  Eoman  Gov- 
ernor in  a  final  attempt  to  secure  the  release 
of  Jesus  presents  Him  to  the  people  with  the 
piteous  appeal,  "Behold  the  man!"  But  from 
a  sea  of  upturned  faces,  white  as  the  ocean 
froth  with  hate,  rises  the  thunderous  cry,  like 
the  voice  of  many  waters,  "Crucify  him!  cru- 
cify him!"  Pilate  yields  and  passes  the  sen- 
tence of  death  upon  the  Savior  of  mankind. 
But  the  Eddyite  would  rush  in  and  cry  out, 
"Hold! — Crucify    whom!      Christ,    the   Divine 


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Idea!  Crucify  an  idea!  Absurd!  Crucify  the 
corporeal  Jesus!  Body  is  an  illusion.  Crucify 
an  illusion!     Equally  absurd!" 

But  enough,  of  Christian  Science;  the  steel 
hammers  driving-  the  gruesome  nails  awaken 
us  only  too  painfully  to  the  fact  that  the  scene 
on  Mt.  Calvary  is  grim  reality.  Fastened  to 
the  cross  He  hangs  between  heaven  and  earth. 
In  sacrificial  agony  He  quivers,  He  moans, 
He  suffers;  finally  crying  in  a  loud  voice,  ''It 
is  finished!"  He  bows  His  thorn-crowned  head 
in  death. 

It  is  finished!  Oh!  ye,  who  love  and  adore 
that  mangled  body  even  in  death,  hearken  to 
that  cry  still  echoing  down  the  centuries !  What 
is  finished!  You  and  I  and  all  who  worship 
Him  as  the  Redeemer  and  the  Savior,  believe 
that  finished  and  fulfilled  is  the  promise  that 
He  made  in  eternity  before  His  angered 
Father's  throne,  the  promise,  to  lay  down  His 
life  in  sacrifice  and  atonement  for  us  sinners, 
and  to  wash  away  our  iniquities  in  His  blood. 

Christian  Science  Denies  Christ's  Atonement. 

But  from  beneath  that  crimson  stream  of 
redeeming  blood  one  of  the  sin-stained  children 
of  Adam  withdraws.  It  is  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy, 
the  mother  of  Christian  Science.  Denying  the 
reality  of  sin  and  that  our  souls  were  ever 
stained  or  soiled,  denying  the  fumes  and  flames 


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of  hell,  denying  the  reality  of  nails  and  wood 
and  cross  and  flesh,  she  denies  also  Christ's 
death,  atonement  and  sacrifice.  In  the  death- 
like stillness  of  Calvary  she  gazes  back  over 
the  career  of  the  dead  Jesus,  and  beholds  in  it 
not  the  mission  to  save  men  from  sin,  but  from 
the  belief  in  sin,  not  to  lead  men  to  repent  of 
sin,  but  to  deny  sin,  for  she  writes,  'Mesus 
came  to  seek  and  to  save  such  as  believe  in  the 
reality  of  the  unreal!  to  save  them  from  this 
false  belief.''  (Misc.,  pg.  63.)  Cold  and  un- 
moved she  looks  upon  the  crimson  pool  gath- 
ered at  the  foot  of  the  instrument  of  death, 
and  says  of  that  blood  that  washed  away  the 
sins  of  the  world,  ''The  material  blood  of 
Jesus  was  no  more  efficacious  to  cleanse  from 
sin  when  it  was  shed  upon  'the  accursed  tree,' 
than  when  it  was  flowing  through  His  veins, 
as  He  went  daily  about  His  Father's  busi- 
ness." ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  330,  74 
ed.)  Even  on  the  Mount  of  His  bloody  death 
she  can  bring  her  heart  no  farther  than  to  pay 
Him  the  tribute  (tribute!!  save  the  mark!)  of 
being  a  "way shower"  ("Science  and  Health" 
Index,  pg.  13,  74  ed.).  Mrs.  Eddy  denies  the 
supreme  truths  of  the  Christian  faith,  and  she 
confesses  it,  writing,  "That  God's  wrath  should 
be  vented  upon  His  Beloved  Son,  is  divinely 
unnatural.  It  is  a  man-made  theory."  ("Sci- 
ence and  Health,"  pg.  328,  74  ed.) 


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From  the  sorrowing  group  on  Mt.  Golgotha 
let  us  remove  the  figure  of  Mrs.  Eddy.  She 
belongs  not  there  where  the  Blessed  Mother 
of  Jesus  and  His  Penitent  Child  are  crushed 
in  grief  and  sorrow. 

The  cross  yields  its  burden,  and  the  corpse 
of  the  slain  God-man  rests  in  the  lap  of  His 
Mother.  In  mournful  procession  He  is  borne 
to  the  rich  man's  garden.  In  the  hush  of  night 
they  deposit  His  mutilated  body  in  the  tomb. 
The  seal  is  affixed  on  the  sepulchre,  and  the 
Roman  sentry  stands  guard.  But  lo !  the  dawn 
of  the  third  day  bursts  over  those  Judean  hills, 
and  witness!  from  the  tomb  of  death  issues  the 
living  Christ, — yes,  living,  robed  in  immortality 
and  glorious  in  the  fulfilment  of  His  prophecy, 
''Destroy  this  temple,  and  in  three  days  I  shall 
rebuild  it." 

Christ   in   the   Sepulchre   Not   Dead.     Gave   a 

Demonstration  of  the  Healing  Efficacy 

of  Christian  Science. 

St.  Paul  wrote,  ''If  Christ  be  not  risen,  then 
vain  is  our  preaching,  and  your  faith  is  also 
vain,  yea,  and  we  are  found  false  witnesses." 
For  nineteen  centuries  the  Christian  world,  in 
the  light  of  the  Apostle's  words,  has  regarded 
the  Resurrection  on  Easter  Morn  as  the  key- 
stone in  the  arch  of  Christianity.  But  now 
after    the   lapse    of   nineteen    centuries    it    re- 


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mained  for  a  woman  in  New  England  to  insult 
the  Apostle  and  designate  him  as  a  false  wit- 
ness. For  teaches  Mrs.  Eddy,  Christ  in  the 
sepulchre  lay  not  in  the  white  sleep  of  death. 
He  was  alive,  practicing  Christian  Science. 
Thus  Mrs.  Eddy  \^riting  in  ''Science  and 
Health,"  pg.  44:  "The  lonely  precincts  of  the 
tomb  gave  Jesus  a  refuge  from  His  foes,  a 
place  in  which  to  solve  the  great  problem  of 
being.  His  three  days'  work  in  the  sepulchre 
set  the  seal  of  eternity  on  time.  He  proved 
Life  to  be  deathless  and  Love  to  be  the  master 
of  hate.  He  met  and  mastered  on  the  basis  of 
Christian  Science,  the  power  of  Mind  over 
matter,  all  the  claims  of  medicine,  surgery,  and 
hygiene. 

"He  took  no  drugs  to  allay  inflammation. 
He  did  not  depend  upon  food  or  pure  air  to 
resuscitate  wasted  energies.  He  did  not  re- 
quire the  skill  of  a  surgeon  to  heal  the  torn 
palms  and  bind  up  the  wounded  side  and 
lacerated  feet,  that  He  might  use  those  hands 
to  remove  the  napkin  and  winding-sheet,  and 
that  He  might  employ  His  feet  as  before.'' 

"His  disciples  believed  Jesus  to  be  dead 
while  He  was  hidden  in  the  sepulchre,  whereas 
He  was  alive."  ("Science  and  Health,"  pg. 
44.)  Hence  it  was  as  natural  for  Him  to  rise 
and  reappear  among  E[is  disciples,  as  it  is  for 
a  man  after  three  days'  retirement  and  rest  in 


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the  privacy  of  his  chamber  to  issue  out  again 
among  his  friends. 

Christian  Science    the   Antithesis   of   Historic 
Christianity. 

Do  you  understand  the  meaning  of  the  wordh 
of  Mrs.  Eddy!  It  is  plain  and  obvious.  She 
has  flatly  denied  the  truth  upon  which  your 
Christian  and  Catholic  faith  stands  and  falls. 
Eddyism  still  parades  before  the  world  with 
the  title  ''Christian"  —  and  I  tell  you  it  is 
the  most  colossal  act  of  fraud  and  effrontery 
of  the  age.  This  moment  you  either  sever  all 
connections  with  Christian  Science  or  call  St. 
John,  who  witnessed  Jesus,  dead  and  buried,  a 
dupe  or  a  downright  prevaricator,  and  the 
Blessed  Virgin  Mary  and  St.  Mary  Magdalene, 
who  came  to  anoint  the  body  of  the  Savior  with 
spices,  as  insanely  hysterical  women,  befogged 
in  materialism. 

After  His  resurrection,  Jesus  appeared  and 
spoke  with  His  disciples.  On  the  way  to  Em-, 
maus  he  walked  in  their  company,  and  in  the 
evening  He  broke  bread  with  them.  He  bade 
the  doubting  Thomas  to  insert  his  finger  in 
the  wounds  of  His  hands  and  feet,  and  to  place 
his  hand  in  the  opening  of  His  sacred  side. 
Why  did  the  Savior  insist  upon  this?  To  as- 
sure His  disciple  of  the  consoling  fact  of  the 
fulfilment  of  the  prophecy  made  in  the  Gospel 


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of  St.  Luke  (18:33):  ''And  after  they  have 
scourged  Him,  they  will  put  Him  to  death; 
and  the  third  day  He  shall  rise  again.'' 

Christ's  Tarrying  upon  Earth,  a  Campaign  of 
Deception. 

We,  therefore,  must  regard  the  tarrying  of 
our  dear  Savior  upon  earth  as  the  last  act  of 
His  love,  to  fortify  forever  the  principal  truth 
upon  which  He  based  the  Divinity  of  His  mis- 
sion, and  upon  which  we  also  rest  our  hopes 
and  our  soul's  supreme  aspiration.  But  Mrs. 
Eddy!  All  through  His  mortal  life,  from  crib 
to  cross,  she  has  dogged  His  steps,  stripping 
His  person  of  every  trace  of  divinity,  imputing 
to  Him  now  ignorance,  now  positive  falsehood, 
— and  now,  even  after  His  death  and  resurrec- 
tion, she  desists  not  from  maligning  His  char- 
acter, but  continues  to  assail  Him,  designating 
His  reappearance  in  the  flesh  as  a  campaign  of 
deception  for  the  purpose  of  strengthening  His 
disciples  in  the  belief  that  He  possessed  the 
selfsame  body,  which  was  stained  with  blood 
and  pierced  with  a  spear,  whereas  His  body 
and  its  wounds  were  "illusions"  and  "mortal 


The  Savior  Merciful. 

Finally   on   Mount   Olivet   the   heart   of   the 
Savior  was  touched  with  pity  at  His  followers 


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groveling  in  error,  and  He  determined  to  dis- 
illusion them.  He,  therefore,  permitted  His 
body  to  melt  into  nothingness.  Thus  equiva- 
lently  Mrs.  Eddy  writing,  ''Jesus'  unchanged 
physical  condition  after  what  seemed  to  be 
death  was  followed  by  His  exaltation  above  all 
material  conditions;  and  this  exaltation  ex- 
plained His  ascension. ' '  ( ' '  Science  and 
Health,''  pg.  46.) 

The  Angels  Cruel. 

But  ye  men  of  Galilee,  we  pity  you!  Jesus 
on  Mount  Olivet  tried  to  disengage  your  minds 
from  error.  But,  alas,  two  angels  appeared 
and  plunged  you  back  into  your  former  lament- 
able condition,  for  they  said,  "Ye  men  of 
Galilee,  why  stand  ye  gazing  up  to  heaven? 
This  same  Jesus  shall  come  in  like  manner  as 
you  have  seen  Him  go."  The  disciples  be- 
lieved that  Jesus  had  been  clothed  in  flesh 
during  His  mortal  life,  and  now  they  are  led 
to  believe  by  these  messengers  from  on  High 
that  His  selfsame  body  of  flesh  and  blood  still 
endures  in  the  mansions  of  eternity. 

These  men  of  Galilee  descended  from  Mount 
Olivet,  and  departed  for  different  parts  of  the 
world.  They  recorded  their  impressions  in  the 
Gospels,  and  upon  these  writings  are  based  the 
dogmas  of  Christianity. 


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The  Writings  of  Mrs.  Eddy  an  Antithesis  of  the 
Record  of  the  Evangelists, 

Tonight  you  have  heard  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy 
set  forth  her  views  regarding  the  Divine  Sa- 
vior. She  has  flatly  contradicted  the  testimony 
of  the  men  of  Galilee,  taken  a  bold  and  defiant 
stand  against  historic  Christianity,  and  ren- 
dered Jesus  Christ  a  perfect  Christian  Sci- 
entist. 

To  Whom  Shall  We  Accord  Belieff 

To  whose  voice  will  you  hearken?  To  the 
voice  of  the  men  of  Galilee  sounding  down  the 
centuries — of  the  men,  who  lived  and  labored 
with  the  Messiah  during  the  heat  of  the  day 
and  in  the  shade  of  the  evening  sat  at  His  feet 
and  learned  from  His  own  sacred  lips  His  doc- 
trine divine,  or  to  the  voice  of  Mrs.  Eddy,  a 
woman,  who,  separated  from  Christ  by  a  space 
of  nineteen  centuries,  sat  at  her  desk  with  a 
Bible  and  a  heap  of  cheap  commentaries  before 
her,  and  believed  herself  inspired'?  To  whose 
testimony  will  you  accord  belief?  To  the  tes- 
timony of  men  who  confessed  their  religion 
before  emperor  and  tyrant  and  sealed  it  with 
the  blood  of  cruel  martyrdom,  or  to  the  testi- 
mony of  a  woman  who,  shrewdly  embodying 
her  religion  in  a  copyrighted  book,  amassed 
through  its  sale  a  fortune,  and  spent  her  days 
in  luxury  and  ease?    Upon  whom  will  you  gaze 


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as  your  spiritual  Mother  and  the  Oracle  of 
truth!  Upon  Mother  Eddy,  who  sank  into  a 
grave  like  any  ordinary  mortal,  and  who,  de- 
spite the  promise  of  her  disciples  that  she 
would  rise  as  a  final  demonstration  of  .the  truth 
of  her  system,  still  lies  mouldering  in  the 
grave  at  Mt.  Auburn,  or  upon  the  Roman  and 
Catholic  and  Apostolic  Church,  who,  though 
she  was  born  on  the  day  when  the  Holy  Ghost 
descended  in  pentecostal  flames  of  fire,  still 
lives  without  spot  or  wrinkle  upon  her  counte- 
nance, without  the  gray  or  white  of  age  upon 
her  head,  without  flaw  or  error  upon  the  record 
of  her  dogmatical  and  moral  teachings? 

You  Cannot  Be  a  Christian  and  Christian  Scien- 
tist.   Christian  Scientists  Excommunicated. 

The  hour  is  solemn.  Your  decision  is  of  tre- 
mendous, nay,  possibly  of  everlasting  impor- 
tance. Mrs.  Eddy  shall  no  longer  wear  the 
mantle  of  Christianity,  and  no  one  standing 
beneath  its  folds  shall  be  designated  as  Chris- 
tian. Now  —  either  declare  for  Mrs.  Baker 
Eddy  and  be  excommunicated  from  the  com- 
munion of  this  Church,  before  whose  altar  you 
tonight  worship,  or  forswear  Mrs.  Eddy  and 
Christian  Science,  and  live  and  die — 
"Within  this  rock-built  Church  that  wavers 
never. 


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Here  reigns  the  Shepherd-King,  a  Father  ever 

To  him  who  seeks  and  loves  the  light. 

This  priestly  King  shall  rule  till  doom's  dread 

day, 
Then  yield   the  keys   to   Him  who   gave   this 

wondrous  sway." 


THE  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  SCHEME 
OF  HEALING 


"For  there  shall  arise  false  Christs  and  false  prophets,  and 
shall  show  great  signs  and  wonders,  inasmuch,  as  to  deceive 
(if  possible)  even  the  elect."    Matt.  24  :24. 

With  serious  mind  we  have  paid  Mrs.  Baker 
Eddy  the  compliment  of  having  possessed  a 
shrewd  and  calculating  sense  of  business,  a 
deeply  practical  understanding  of  the  weakness 
and  foibles  of  human  nature,  and  of  the  method 
how  best  to  turn  them  to  her  advantage  and 
favor.  She  recognized  with  what  self-effacing 
obeisance  men  will  prostrate  themselves  before 
any  vagary  presented  in  the  name  of  ^'Sci- 
ence/'— and  to  secure  for  her  system  the  power 
of  enthralling,  she  called  it  ^'Science."  Quite 
well  did  she  know  that  religion  rules  as  one  of 
the  dominant  passions  in  the  human  heart, — 
and  to  add  to  her  system  the  sanction  and  the 
theological  dignity  of  a  religious  cult,  she 
called  it  ^^ Christian.'* 

Christian  Science  Divested  of  Its  Masquerade 
Costume — A  Sanitary  System. 
But  with  Christian  Science,  inasmuch  as  it  is 
presented  to  the  world  as  a  system  of  meta- 


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physics  and  of  theology,  we  are  done.  It  shall 
no  longer  engage  our  attention,  as  it  is  vested 
in  its  masquerade  costume,  and  never  again 
shall  we  with  advertence  pronounce  its  name 
save  as  the  ^'so-called  Christian  Science.''  We 
now  desire  to  look  upon  it  in  its  nakedness. 

Patent  medicines  often,  I  might  say,  gener- 
ally depend  for  a  wide  sale  not  so  much  upon 
their  merits  as  upon  bold  advertisement.  Our 
eye  is  caught  by  some  vivid  description  of  an 
accident  or  crime,  by  some  interesting  observa- 
tion about  religion,  history,  science,  etc.  We 
read  on  with  increasing  interest  and  only  near 
the  close  do  we  discover  that  we  have  been 
reading  a  newspaper  advertisement  formally 
urging  us  to  take  Peruna,  sure  cure  for  coughs, 
colds,  catarrh. 

We  read  a  book  entitled  '^Science  and 
Health."  It  is  printed  and  bound  in  the  shape 
and  form  of  a  pocket  Bible;  it  contains  scin- 
tillating metaphors,  sophomoric  effusions,  and 
lame  iambics,  all  melting  into  one  confused  and 
confusing  composition,  labeled  ''Science."  Still 
if  the  reader  at  its  conclusion  retains  the  use 
of  his  faculties,  he  cannot  lay  down  the  ''pre- 
cious volume"  but  with  the  conviction  that 
the  authoress  of  "Science  and  Health,"  in  a 
manner  much  more  clever  than  patent  medicine 
advertisements,  has  made  a  bid  to  him  to  adopt 
Christian  Science  as  a  sanitary  system — as  a 


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panacea  for  every  ill  and  hurt  and  pain  inher- 
ited by  the  children  of  Adam. 

A  sanitary  system — such  we  judge  the  true 
nature  of  Christian  Science  to  be.  That  we 
err  not,  Mrs.  Eddy  herself  testifies,  writing  in 
^'Eetrospection  and  Introspection,^'  page  304, 
'^The  motive  of  my  early  years  has  never  been 
changed.  It  was  to  relieve  the  sufferings  of 
humanity  by  a  sanitary  system."  It  is  in  the 
light  of  this  definition  that  we  shall  presently 
consider  Christian  Science,  so  called. 

^^ Science  and  Health"  Reminds  of  Patent 
Medicine  Literature. 

We  cannot  resist  thinking  of  Lydia  Pink- 
ham's  Compound  pamphlets,  with  the  appended 
testimonial  letters  from  profoundly  grateful 
patients.  For  in  '^ Science  and  Health"  also 
there  has  been  embodied  a  chapter  entitled 
'^Fruitage,"  in  which  Mrs.  Eddy  presents  a 
collection  of  letters  "in  testimony  of  the  heal- 
ing efficacy  of  Christian  Science  and  particu- 
larly of  the  vast  number  of  people  who  have 
been  reformed  and  healed  through  the  peru- 
sal or  study  of  this  book."  ("Science  and 
Health,"  pg.  600.) 

Patients  —  Profoundly    Grateful,   Indeed,    Yet 

Perhaps    Over -enthusiastic. 
Organs   of   Credulity   Marvelously   Developed. 
Mrs.   Eddy  has   identified  her   system   with 
the  Holy  Ghost,  writing,  "The  Science  of  God 


and  man  is  the  Holy  Ghost/'  ('^ Unity  of 
Good/'  pg.  52.)  But  I  prefer  to  hazard  a  sin 
against  the  Holy  Ghost  (as  Mrs.  Eddy  con- 
ceives him)  than  to  accept  absolutely  and  in- 
discriminately all  the  letters  of  testimony 
quoted  by  Mrs,  Eddy.  Some,  therefore,  I  dis- 
miss unreservedly  as  absurd  and  preposterous. 
Their  contents  contradict  the  most  palpable 
experience  of  our  senses  and  the  clearest  judg- 
ments of  our  intellect.  On  page  605  (^'Science 
and  Health")  we  find  a  letter  introduced  as 
^'A  Case  of  Mental  Surgery/'  in  which  a  dis- 
ciple testifies  that,  lying  in  the  dust  with  a 
broken  arm  received  from  a  fall,  he  declared 
to  himself  the  truth  that  there  can  be  no  break 
in  the  realm  of  Divine  Love,  and  forthwith 
arose  with  the  bone  of  his  arm  perfectly  knit- 
ted, mounted  his  bicycle  and  rode  home.  I 
reject  the  testimony  of  this  man;  nor  am  I 
compelled  to  present  an  elaborate  argument 
for  my  action  any  more  than  I  would  be  held 
to  oifer  proof  and  reasons  for  refusing  to 
believe  that  a  man  could  stop  the  roll  of  the 
waves  with  a  pitchfork.  A  statement  mani- 
festly absurd  needs  no  refutation. 

Other  cases  may  sound  surprising  and  as- 
tounding, but  we  reject  them  not.  They  may 
lie  out  of  the  realm  of  our  own  personal  expe- 
rience; still  they  violate  not  reason,  and  for 
their  truth  we  have  the  testimony  and  guaran- 


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tee  of  persons,  whose  character  for  knowledge 
and  veracity  is  beyond  impeachment. 

Finally,  other  cases  are  produced,  which  fall 
under  the  ken  of  our  own  personal  observation, 
and  for  which  we  find  a  parallel  every  day. 

Therefore,  we  concede,  and  we  do  it  frankly, 
that  in  the  temples  of  Christian  Science  some 
persons  have  found  hope  and  relief,  perhaps 
even  after  the  doctors  had  abandoned  them  as 
beyond  the  aid  of  their  efforts,  and  their  close 
relatives  were  mournfully  calculating  the  fun- 
eral expenses. 

Healing  Successes  Not  Due  to  Religio- 
,'  metaphysical  Theories. 

£  Now,  what  does  the  fact  that  a  few  cures 
have  been  effected,  argue  I  Do  they  form  a 
physical  demonstration  of  the  truth  and  valid- 
ity of  the  religio-metaphysical  theories  of  Mrs. 
Baker  Eddy?    This  I  flatly  deny. 

Spiritism  also,  of  which  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy 
herself  remarks,  "No  greater  opposites  can  be 
conceived  than  Christian  Science,  Spiritism, 
and  Theosophy,''  claims  cures  equally  wonder- 
ful, or  rather  seemingly  wonderful,  and,  I  judge, 
as  truthfully  as  Christian  Science.  In  Utah 
the  Mormons  are  said  to  effect  cures  without 
the  administering  of  medicine.  In  every  neigh- 
borhood periodically  appears  the  wonder- 
working evangelist ;  he  claims  to  be  the  Mes- 


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siah,  though  to  some  he  may  be  known  to  have 
no  more  conscience  than  a  thieving  tom-cat.  In 
the  deserts  of  Arizona  over  the  sick  Indian  the 
medicine-man  chants  his  weird  incantations; 
he  believes  not  in  Christian  Science,  and  yet 
missionaries  inform  us  that  his  rude  efforts  are 
often  attended  with  marvelous  results. 

How  shall  we  explain  the  cures  effected  by 
these  various  religious  healers'?  Shall  we  say 
that  the  devil  aids  them?  No.  To  the  devil 
too  much  credit  is  already  given.  Has  Heaven 
granted  them  some  preternatural  power?  No. 
Their  character  and  methods  preclude  such  a 
possibility.  Is  it  in  virtue  of  the  truth  of  their 
respective  theories  regarding  the  nature  of  the 
Supreme  Being  and  metaphysics  (if  by  a 
stretch  of  the  imagination  we  can  associate 
metaphysics  with  a  war-painted  Indian)  ?  No. 
Their  teachings  contradict  and  antagonize  one 
another,  and  among  contradictories  some  are 
evidently  false. 

Mind  Controls  Body. 

There  must  be  some  other  fact  that  explains 
their  therapeutic  successes,  and  it  is  this :  they 
all— the  Utah  Mormon,  the  itinerant  evangelist, 
the  red  Indian  and  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy — have 
laid  hold  of  the  truth  that  mind  can  control 
body,  and  surrounded  it  with  a  mass  of  fan- 
tastic, weird  and  mutually  contradicting  terms. 


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They  cure,  not  because  their  respective  relig- 
ious teachings  are  true,  for  these  are  absurd 
and  nonsensical,  but  because  they  succeed  in 
gaining  influence  over  the  mind  (whether  by 
telling  the  truth  or  falsehood  matters  not),  and 
through  the  mind  over  the  body. 

Do  we  doubt  this  control  of  mind  over  body? 
Witness  how  friend  affects  friend,  the  joy  or 
sorrow  of  one  producing  happiness  or  gloom 
in  the  other.  But  where  find  we  friends  more 
intimately  connected  and  closely  allied  than  the 
soul  and  the  body?  In  the  moment  of  concep- 
tion the  hand  of  the  Creator  interlocks  them, 
and  through  life  they  pass,  so  to  speak,  hand 
in  hand.  What  wonder,  then,  that  the  condi- 
tion of  one  affects  the  disposition  of  the  other. 
Is  the  soul  enkindled  with  anger?  Does  it 
burn  with  revenge?  Witness  the  body  also 
affected — the  eyes  blaze  fire,  the  lips  grow  blue 
and  quiver,  the  cheek  is  hot  and  scarlet. 

Is  the  soul  seized  with  fear?  Hovers  over 
it  some  calamity?  Threatens  it  dire  punish- 
ment? Witness  the  body  also  influenced — the 
face  is  pale  and  haggard,  the  lips  tremble,  the 
mouth  is  parched  and  dry. 

Finally  witness  the  man  who  thinks  his  best 
efforts  blighted.  His  eyes  lose  lustre.  Keen 
disappointment  gnaws  away  his  life.  But  when 
to  his  surprise  he  beholds  a  change,  and  his 


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work  blossoms  forth  into  success,  those  eyes 
glisten  again  with  new  life  and  ambition  and 
pride. 

Indigestion  Due  to  Mental  Attitude. 

These  instances  from  daily  life  exemplify  the 
control  of  mind  over  body-.  Shall  we  marvel, 
then,  that  it  can  exercise  the  same  control  in 
the  sphere  of  therapeutics?  The  most  crude 
function  in  the  human  body  is  that  of  digestion 
of  food,  and  yet  J.  J.  Walsh,  M.  D.,  informs  us 
that  it  is  largely  under  the  control  of  the 
soul.  As  an  illustration  he  quotes  the  story 
of  a  European  traveling  in  China.  On  his  first 
day  out  from  Hongkong  he  was  treated  to  a 
stew  of  dark  meat,  which  he  relished  im- 
mensely. Desirous  of  learning  its  name  and 
not  understanding  Chinese,  he  pointed  to  the 
dish  and  very  suggestively  said,  '^  Quack! 
quack!''  But  the  waiter  negatively  shook  his 
head  and  added,  ''Bow!  wow!"  It  was  a  most 
unfortunate  answer  to  a  very  unfortunate 
question.  Undoubtedly  the  result  was  pain- 
fully unhappy.  Still  it  illustrates  that  the 
attack  of  indigestion  was  merely  consequent 
and  due  to  a  mental  attitude. 

The  same  observation  may  be  made  of  other 
organs  in  the  body.  Prof.  Oppenheim  (quoted 
by  J.  J.  Walsh,  M.  D.)  writes:  "The  heart 
rebels,   as   it  were,   against   this   surveillance. 


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which  not  only  accelerates,  but  may  even  in- 
hibit its  action  and  render  it  irregular. 

^^And  so  it  is  with  all  the  organs  of  the  body 
which  act  spontaneously  (automatically  or  me- 
chanically, like  a  clock) ;  they  get  out  of  order 
and  become  functionally  defective,  if,  as  the 
result  of  the  attention  and  self -observation 
directed  towards  them,  impulses  flow  to  them 
from  the  centers  of  consciousness  and  will  in 
the  same  way  as  they  flow  to  the  organs  (e.  g., 
the  muscles)  which  are  normally  under  the 
control  of  the  will. 

^'Whenever  you  succeed  in  controlling  the 
action  of  your  heart  by  means  of  introspection, 
there  flows  from  your  brain  to  your  heart  a 
current  of  innervation  which  disturbs  the  auto- 
matic movement  of  the  organ.  You  know  whom 
you  have  to  thank  for  the  irregularity  in  the 
action  of  your  heart.  I  have  frequently  proved 
this  to  myself  in  your  case:  if  I  succeeded  in 
feeling  your  pulse  without  your  becoming 
aware  of  it,  holding  your  attention  by  a  con- 
versation which  interested  you,  the  action  of 
your  heart  was  always  absolutely  regular.  If, 
however,  I  tried  it  under  your  control,  whilst 
your  attention  was  anxiously  directed  to  your 
heart,  its  action  at  once  became  irregular,  and 
you  experienced  the  very  unpleasant  sensation 
of  palpitation.'^ 


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Change  of  Mental  Attitude  Produces  Cure  of 
Body. 
As  a  summary,  therefore,  we  state:  An  ab- 
normal condition  of  the  mind — caused  by  fear, 
disappointment,  morbid  introspection,  worry, 
etc. — produces  an  abnormal  condition  of  the 
body.  Such  is  the  nature,  generally  speaking, 
of  nervous  and  hysterical  disorders.  The 
functions  of  the  organs  have  been  interfered 
with;  and  this  functional  derangement  we  call 
a  disease.  All  that  is  necessary  to  cure  a  dis- 
ease of  this  nature  is,  that  the  abnormal  condi- 
tion of  the  mind  be  removed. 

Enter  the  Practitioner, 

Bearing  these  facts  in  mind,  let  us  now 
watch  the  Christian  Scientist  practitioner  ex- 
ercise his  art.  ''With  steady,  solemn,  silent 
step'^  he  enters  the  sick  room  and  approaches 
the  patient.  He  impresses  upon  the  mind  of 
the  sufferer  that  his  sickness  is  an  illusion;  he 
removes  the  disquieting  fear  of  symptoms;  he 
reanimates  that  wavering  heart  with  courage 
and  resistance  and  hope  of  recovery.  He  con- 
tinues this  ''treatment"  until  the  mind  is  really 
soothed  and  calmed,  and  quite  naturally  he 
often  succeeds  in  curing  the  body. 

Conclusion  Not  Warranted. 

Now,  does  this  justify  the  Eddyite  to  jump 
up,  and,  his  face  lighted  up  with  triumph,   to 


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exclaim,  '^ Behold  a  cure!  a  demonstration  of 
the  trnth  of  Christian  Science!"  Not  at  all. 
Not  so  fast,  my  man !  The  attitude  of  the  mind 
has  been  changed.  Vain  fears  have  been  dis- 
sipated; but  whether  it  was  accomplished  by 
telling  the  truth  or  the  falsehood,  is  quite  a 
different  question. 

Use  Christian  Science — Prescribe  Fire  Engine 
for  Cure  of  Headache! 

You  and  I  are  aware  that  many  shrewd 
mothers  soothe  the  pain  of  a  crying  infant  by 
handing  it  a  circular  cracker  with  the  assur- 
ance that  it  is  the  moon, — ^that  oftentimes  doc- 
tors cure  heartache  and  headache  by  prescrib- 
ing sugar-pellets  and  telling  the  patients  that 
they  are  taking  powerful  drugs.  Moreover, 
a  splitting  headache  may  be  torturing  you 
through  the  hours  of  the  night,  but  once  your 
house  begins  to  burn,  and  you  hear  the  rumble 
of  the  arriving  fire  engines,  the  clanging  of  the 
bells,  the  hoarse  shouts  of  the  firemen,  you 
forget  your  head  and  its  ache.  Will  you  now 
seriously  prescribe  a  fire  engine  for  the  cure 
of  a  headache! 

The  metaphysical  and  theological  teachings 
of  Christian  Science  have  as  much  connection 
with  the  therapeutic  successes  it  claims,  as 
have  the  sugar  pills,  the  conflagration,  with 
the  cures  enumerated  above.    In  both  cases  the 


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mind  was  influenced,  and  regardless  of  the  way 
it  was  done,  still  a  beneficial  effect  was  pro- 
duced in  the  body. 

But  shall  we  suffer  ourselves  to  be  treated 
like  infants  holding  a  cracker  in  their  tiny 
hands  and  believing  it  to  be  the  moon?  Shall 
we  pay  the  price  of  an  expensive  drug  for 
plain  water  with  an  admixture  of  a  little  table 
salt*?  Shall  we  swallow  morsels  of  blasphemy, 
of  absurdity?  Shall  we  be  duped  and  fraudu- 
lently deceived  to  obtain  the  benefits  of  mind 
cure?    Not  at  all. 

Catholic  Church  Influences  Mind,  Beneficially 
Yet  Not  Fraudulently. 

I  appeal  to-yqu  t^  <?onsider  the  Sacraments 
of  the  Catholic  Church !  Not  a  Catholic  clergy- 
man but  who  can  testify  to  the  marvelous 
power  they  exercise  over  the  mind  and, 
through  the  mind,  upon  the  body.  Witness  the 
man  with  his  soul  laden  with  sin.  No  man 
knows  of  his  crime  committed  in  the  dark 
hours  of  night,  yet  remorse  and  keen  regret 
eat  away  his  vitality  and  vigor.  But  once  that 
man  confesses  his  sin,  and  God's  minister  as- 
sures him  that  his  soul  is  purged  of  guilt,  mark 
the  wondrous  change!  Calm  and  peace  are 
restored;  the  haggard  and  worn  look  disap- 
pears; no  longer  gazes  he  with  furtive  and 
nervous  glance,  but  stands  before  the  world, 
confident  and  composed. 


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Again,  who,  having  knelt  about  the  Catholic 
sick  bed,  cannot  tell  of  the  wonderful  effects  of 
Extreme  Unction  f  In  every  case  this  Sacra- 
ment produces  hope  and  peace,  calm  and  con- 
fidence ;  in  a  considerable  number  of  cases  even 
bodily  health  is  restored,  while  doctors  stand 
about  in  wonder.  Of  course  it  is  to  be  noted 
that  the  Sacraments  produce  their  effect  prin- 
cipally in  virtue  of  their  inherent,  supernatural 
power. 

Finally,  the  precepts,  the  promises,  the 
heroic  example  of  Jesus  Christ!  If  only  we 
more  faithfully  carried  out  the  rule  of  life  con- 
tained in  His  Grospels,  if  only  we  more  confi- 
dently hearkened  to  His  words,  ''Be  not  anx- 
ious for  the  morrow!"  if  only  we  did  not  ig- 
nore the  fact  that  ''whom  the  Lord  loveth.  He 
chastiseth,"  if  only  we  more  often  meditated 
upon  the  courage  and  steadfastness  with  which 
He  bore  the  cross  on  the  Via  Dolorosa,  oh! 
never  would  we  be  tempted  in  order  to  relieve 
fretful  worries,  to  drink  of  the  poisonous  foun- 
tain of  Eddyism,  but  in  our  own  religion  we 
would  discover  there  abides  the  secret  of  god- 
liness and  the  secret  of  health  and  contentment 
as  well. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  SCHEME 
OF  HEALING.- Continued. 


"The    dissembler    with    his    tongue    deceiveth    his    friend." 
Prov.  11:9. 

Slander  and  calumny  have  attempted  to 
fasten  upon  tlie  Jesuits  the  iniquitous  charg-e 
of  having-  taug-ht  the  principle  that  the  end 
justifies  the  means, — for  instance,  that  a  man 
in  order  to  acquire  a  good  or  avoid  an  evil  jus- 
tifiably may  resort  to  lying  and  duplicity.  The 
Order  of  St.  Ignatius,  however,  ever  innocent 
of  the  charge,  has  successfully  vindicated  its 
name  in  the  minds  of  all,  if  we  except  the  des- 
picable, big-ot-minded  and  lantern-jawed  editors 
of  the  Menace  type.  In  the  course  of  the  first 
few  lectures  we  unmistakably  learned  that 
Christian  Science,  so  called,  preaches  the  self- 
same principle;  and  in  the  last  lecture  we  wit- 
nessed that  it  also  makes  practical  use  of  it. 
The  ills  of  many  are  intimately  connected  with 
an  abnormal  state  of  mind.  Christian  Science 
quiets  the  mind  and  restores  to  it  peace  and 
calm.  The  consequence  often  is  a  return  of 
health    to    the    body.      But    how   has    Science 


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soothed  the  mind?  By  lying  and  deceit — by 
imposing  upon  that  mind  an  apostasy  from 
every  Christian  teaching  and  a  travesty  on  all 
scientific  thought.  Still,  though  we  do  not 
approve  but  utterly  detest  the  method,  we 
cannot  gainsay  that  ''Science"  sometimes  ob- 
tains its  end,  namely,  cure  of  the  body. 

But  not  always  do  unjust  means  obtain  their 
end.  Often  they  are  employed  and  no  result 
follows,  since  they  are  entirely  inadequate.  Or 
a  good  effect  may  be  in  evidence,  still  it  is  in 
no  wise  due  to  the  evil  means,  which  are  inade- 
quate, but  to  another  factor. 

Cured  —  Christian  Science^  Hoivever,  Innocent. 

During  the  past  weeks  I  have  been  ap- 
proached by  persons  assuring  me  that  within 
the  circle  of  their  acquaintances  are  persons 
who  have  been  cured  by  ''Science"  of  other 
diseases  than  those  mentioned  in  the  last  lec- 
ture. I  would  answer  that  I  doubt  not  the 
words  of  their  estimable  friends  in  so  far  as 
they  state  that  they  have  been  cured.  But  if 
their  diseases  were  different  from  those  I  made 
mention  of  last  week,  I  positively  deny  that 
they  can  attribute  their  cure  to  Christian 
Science. 

Nature  Cures  Him. 

Witness  the  ragamuffin  in  the  street.  He  too 
occasionally    contracts    colds,    suffers    severe 


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pains,  and  is  affected  with  fever.  Yet  he  re- 
covers without  the  aid  of  doctor  or  nurse,  medi- 
cine or  attention.  Did  he  use  Christian  Sci- 
ence? No.  In  all  probability  he  possessed  not 
even  a  clear  idea  of  it.  We  say  that  he  re- 
covered ''naturally/'  meaning-  that  nature 
cured  him — and  we  have  voiced  the  truth. 

The  Recuperative  Potver  of  Nature. 

There  resides  in  the  human  body  a  certain 
recuperative  power  called  ''vis  medicatrix  na- 
turae." Every  living  organism  of  its  nature 
tends  to  throw  off  sickness,  and  to  repair  the 
ravages  inflicted  by  disease.  Sickness  is  an 
abnormal  condition  of  the  body,  and  nature 
strives  to  restore  the  natural  condition,  the 
equilibrium  of  health. 

Sir  John  Forbes,  an  eminent  English  physi- 
cian, is  quoted  by  Dr.  Buckley  as  saying:. 
"First,  that  in  a  large  proportion  of  the  cases 
treated  by  allopathic  physicians,  the  disease"  is 
cured  by  nature,  and  not  by  them.  Second, 
that  in  a  lesser  but  still  not  a  small  proportion, 
the  disease  is  cured  by  nature  in  spite  of  them ; 
in  other  words,  their  interference  retarding 
instead  of  assisting  the  cure.  Third,  that  in, 
consequently,  a  considerable  proportion  of  dis- 
eases it  would  fare  as  well  or  better  with 
patients  if  all  remedies — at  least  all  active 
remedies,  especially  drugs — were  abandoned.'' 


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Again,  Sir  John  Marshall  is  quoted  as  say- 
ing: ''The  Vis  Medicatrix  Naturae  is  the  agent 
to  employ  in  the  healing  of  an  ulcer,  or  the 
union  of  a  broken  bone;  and  it  is  equally  true 
that  the  physician  and  surgeon  never  cured  a 
disease;  he  only  assists  the  natural  processes 
of  cure/'     (P.  C.  Wolcott,  B.  D.) 

Christian  Science  Steals  Credit  Due  to  Nature. 

From  the  testimony  of  these  men — authori- 
ties in  their  profession  —  we  recognize  that 
many  diseases  have  the  tendency  to  run  their 
course  in  the  system,  and  then  disappear.  This 
fact  affords  Christian  Scientists  an  opportun- 
ity to  echo  a  triumph.  Just  after  the  disease 
has  reached  its  crisis  and  is  about  to  leave  the 
body,  the  Christian  Science  practitioner  ar- 
rives. He  awards  the  credit  of  the  cure  to 
Christian  Science,  and  pockets  the  patient's 
money. 

The  Eddyite  may  urge  that  he  prescribed  no 
medicine.  Why  then  did  he  accept  the  money? 
He  may  insist,  because  he  gave  him  Christian 
Science  treatment.  But  I  tell  you  Christian 
Science  was  totally  innocent  of  the  patient's 
cure.     Nature  cured  the  man. 

Finally  we  must  discuss  the  cases,  where 
Christian  Science  claims  cures,  whereas  in  truth 
no  cure  has  been  effected. 


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Jesus  Christ  cured  the  lame  and  the  blind 
and  the  deaf  and  the  dumb.  Nay,  He  even 
commanded  Lazarus  who  lay  four  days  in  the 
dominion  of  death  to  issue  from  the  grave; 
and  Lazarus  laid  aside  the  cerements  of  death 
and  came  out  of  the  grave — alive.  Now,  Mrs. 
Baker  Eddy,  claiming  to  be  the  equal  of  Jesus, 
must  also  claim  cures  equally  as  wonderful  as 
were  those  wrought  by  Christ.  She  unhesi- 
tatingly does  this  in  a  communication  to  the 
New  York  Sun  for  Dec.  16,  1891  (as  quoted  by 
F.  W.  Peabody).  She  said:  ''I  challenge  the 
world  to  disprove  what  I  hereby  declare.  After 
my  discovery  of  Christian  Science,  I  healed 
consumption  in  its  last  stages,  that  the  M.  D.  's, 
by  verdict  of  the  stethoscope  and  the  schools, 
declared  incurable,  the  lungs  being  mostly  con- 
sumed. I  healed  malignant  tubercular  diph- 
theria and  carious  bones  that  could  be  dented 
by  the  finger,  saving  them  when  the  surgeon's 
instruments  were  lying  on  the  table  ready  for 
their  amputation.  I  have  healed  at  one  visit 
a  cancer  that  had  so  eaten  the  flesh  of  the 
neck  as  to  expose  the  jugular  vein  so  that  it 
stood  out  like  a  cord." 

Mrs.  Eddy  Claims  Offhand  Manufacture  of 
Lungs. 

Mrs.  Baker  Eddy  plainly  asserts  that  in  one 
visit  she  pulled  out  a  malignant  cancer,  manu- 


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factured  a  new  pair  of  lungs,  and  produced 
new  and  solid  bone.  She  evidently  employed 
neither  medicine  nor  knife.  Mind  healing  is 
her  only  method.  But  I  tell  you  it  is  equally 
impossible  for  mind  to  produce  a  new  pair  of 
lungs  as  it  is  for  mind  to  decapitate  a  man. 
I  challenge  all  the  Eddyites  in  the  world  to 
stand  at  a  respectable  distance  from  me,  and 
merely  by  power  of  mind  to  take  my  head  off 
my  shoulders.  It  is  equally  impossible  for 
mind  to  knit  a  fractured  bone  as  it  is  for  mind 
to  break  that  bone. 

A  Christian  Science  Expedition  to  War-Stricken 
Europe  Suggested. 

Moreover,  if  present-day  Christian  Scientists 
have  inherited  the  power  of  their  '^Mother,'' 
and  if  the  case  of  ''Mental  Surgery''  recorded 
in  "Science  and  Health,''  page  605,  is  based 
on  fact  and  truth,  why  do  they  not  embark  on 
an  expedition  of  mercy  to  war-torn  Europe? 
Shot  and  shrapnel  and  bayonet  and  sabre  have 
wounded  and  maimed  millions  of  valiant  men — 
husbands  and  sons.  Countries  like  France  and 
Germany  have  been  converted  into  vast  Red 
Cross  camps.  What  a  wave  of  rejoicing  would 
not  sweep  over  those  lands,  what  towering 
monuments,  as  tokens  of  gratitude  for  help 
accorded  in  the  darkest  hour,  would  not  be 
erected,  if  a  corps  of  Christian  Science  healers 


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would  pass  down  between  those  long  rows  of 
beds,  where  lie  the  wounded  and  the  mutilated, 
and  send  them  off,  as  rapidly  as  Mother  Eddy 
effected  her  cures,  skipping  and  rejoicing  with 
new  pairs  of  legs  and  arms !  If  lungs  can  be 
completely  restored,  why  not  legs? 

Cork  Leg,  Not  Christian  Science,  Benefited  Him. 

A.  B.  Dixon  writes  that  a  certain  Christian 
Science  practitioner  attempted  surgery  of  this 
nature  in  New  England,  possibly  because  she 
believed  charity  begins  at  home— on  this  side 
of  the  Atlantic.  Noticing  a  veteran  painfully 
limping  past  her  door  morning  after  morning, 
she  determined  to  give  him  absent  treatment. 
Highly  gratified,  indeed,  was  this  good  woman 
a  few  days  later  to  see  the  limp  disappear.  She 
informed  the  veteran  that  his  cure  was  due  to 
the  absent  treatment  she  had  administered.  He 
agreed  not  fully  with  her,  but  preferred  to  give 
credit  for  his  being  better  able  to  walk  to  the 
newly  acquired  cork  leg,  which  he  had  substi- 
tuted for  his  old,  clumsy  wooden  leg.  Whether 
this  cure  also  was  heralded  in  the  Christian 
Science  publications  as  a  new  triumph  for 
Eddyism  or  not,  A.  B.  Dixon  informs  us  not. 
Still  even  in  case  it  were,  it  would  possess 
every  ounce  of  sense  and  truth  that  scores  of 
others  recorded  in  the  patent-medicine-litera- 
ture chapter,  "Fruitage,'^  possess. 


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The  species  of  suggestion  used  by  Christian 
Science  can  be  of  avail  only  as  far  as  the  mind 
can  exercise  an  influence  over  the  body.  But 
when  an  organ  of  the  human  body  is  injured, 
torn,  bruised,  the  mind  is  completely  powerless, 
and  so  are  all  the  efforts  of  Christian  Science. 

Symptoms    Associated   ivith    Organic    Disease 

Often  Disappear  with  Change  of  Mental 

Attitude.    Organic  Disease  Remains. 

We  are  fully  aware  that  with  serious  organic 
diseases  there  are  often  associated  symptoms 
occasionally  more  difficult  to  bear  than  the  dis- 
ease itself.  Upon  learning  that  he  is  afflicted 
with  an  incurable  organic  disease,  the  patient 
often  suffers  a  depression  of  spirit,  loss  of 
hope  of  recovery,  indigestion.  These  adventi- 
tious symptoms  are  often  attributed  to  the 
organic  disease,  whereas  in  fact  they  are  due 
to  the  mental  condition.  Having  been  caused 
by  the  mind,  mental  healing  may  aid  in  remov- 
ing them.  The  deplorable  fact,  however,  is, 
that  many  persons  believe  that  with  the  dis- 
appearance of  the  adventitious  symptoms,  the 
underlying  disease  also  has  been  cured, — which 
is  false. 

Christian  Science  Creates  for  Its  Votaries  a 
Fool's  Paradise. 

There  is  truth  in  the  saying  that  a  person 
can  fool  himself.    No  doubt  hearing  the  words. 


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*^There  is  no  body,  no  sickness/'  continually 
dinned  into  his  ears,  many  a  one  begins  to 
believe  himself  cured,  whereas  the  disease  re- 
mains. P.  C.  Wolcott  makes  the  statement  that 
this  form  of  suggestion  can  take  on  so  potent 
a  form,  that  it  results  in  hypnosis.  Under  this 
hypnosis  a  person  may  be  entirely  unaware  that 
his  normal  psychical  balance  has  been  disturbed 
and  still  be  rendered  completely  insensible 
to  pain.  In  the  Cosmopolitan  Magazine  for 
March,  1907,  the  Earl  of  Dunamore,  over  his 
own  signature,  tells  how  Christian  Science 
healed  him  of  a  disease,  which  the  most  emi- 
nent physicians  in  London  had  pronounced  in- 
curable. Yet  hardly  had  the  magazine  gotten 
into  the  hands  of  the  subscribers,  and  just 
as  thousands  were  reading  his  statement  re- 
garding his  cure,  the  Earl  of  Dunamore  died 
of  the  very  same  incurable  disease.  He  may 
have  learnt  in  Eddyism  to  repeat  the  equation, 
^^  Accident,  sickness,  sin,  disease  and  pain  are 
equal  to  zero,"  but,  alas,  that  made  them  not 
zero. 

The  Modern  Moloch. 

Tragedies  of  this  nature  are  occurring  daily ; 
and  this  forms  one  of  the  darkest  phases  of  the 
Christian  Science  healing  activities.  Mothers 
are  persuaded  not  to  invoke  the  aid  of  a  phy- 


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sician  when  their  children  are  perhaps  dying 
before  their  eyes ;  nay,  people  gasping  on  their 
death  beds,  are  still  taught  to  hug  the  delu- 
sion, ''There  is  no  death.''  True,  just  before 
the  last  breath  is  to  be  drawn  a  doctor  may  be 
summoned.  But  why!  To  obtain  the  death 
certificate.  If  the  Society  for  the  Prevention 
of  Cruelty  to  Animals  obtains  a  warrant  of 
arrest  for  the  miser  neglecting  to  feed  his 
horse  and  permitting  the  brute  to  starve  to 
death,  why  does  not  civilized  society  rise  up 
against  these  practitioners  of  fraud,  who  per- 
mit hundreds  of  human  beings  to  perish  by 
wilful  and  culpable  neglect — often  equivalent 
to  murder — of  the  God-given  remedies  for  dis- 
ease and  pain? 

Dr.  Stephen  Paget  Describes  the  Tragedies  in 
the  Shadow  of  Christian  Science. 

I  do  not  deem  the  words  of  Dr.  Stephen 
Paget  too  strong,  in  presenting  this  dangerous 
phase  of  Eddyism,  when  he  writes:  ''They 
bully  dying  women,  and  let  babies  die  in  pain; 
let  cases  of  paralysis  tumble  about  and  hurt 
themselves;  let  appendicitis  go  on  to  septic 
peritonitis,  gastric  ulcer  to  perforation  of  the 
stomach,  nephritis  to  uremic  convulsions,  and 
strangulated  hernia  to  the  miserere  mei  of  gan- 
grene; watch,  day  after  day,  while  a  man  or 
woman    slowly   bleeds   to    death;    and    compel 


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them  who  should  be  kept  still  to  take  exercise. 
To  these  works  of  the  devil  they  bring  their 
one  deft,  wilful  and  complete  ignorance ;  and 
their  'nursing'  would  be  a  farce  if  it  were  not 
a  tragedy.  Such  is  the  way  of  Christian  Sci- 
ence, face  to  face,  as  she  loves  to  be,  with  bad 
cases  of  organic  disease. 

''Seeing  the  gross  and  shameful  malprac- 
tices of  Christian  Science,  and  the  long  trail 
of  pain  and  of  death  that  she  leaves  behind 
her,  and  her  impudent  concealment  of  all  her 
failures  and  worse  than  failures,  and  her 
notion  that  all  diseases  alike  are  mental,  and 
none  of  them  in  reality  there;  and  her  mad 
resolve  never  to  examine  a  case  or  read  a 
medical  book,  or  look  at  a  specimen,  or  take 
a  temperature,  or  listen  to  a  chest,  or  use  a 
microscope,  or  acknowledge  any  difference  be- 
tween ordinary  backache  and  spinal  caries,  be- 
tween functional  paralysis  and  organic  paraly- 
sis, between  indigestion  and  cancer  of  the 
stomach;  between  pain  in  the  breast  and  can- 
cer of  the  breast;  and  her  frequent  cruelty, 
especially  to  small  children;  and  her  brutal 
way  of  saying  that  her  patients  die  of  want 
of  understanding  what  she  tells  them — seeing 
all  these  abominations,  we  ought  to  prevent 
even  the  faintest  shadow  of  them  from  falling 
across  our  church. '^     (Quoted  by  C.  E.  Locke.) 


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Mrs.  Eddy  an  Emhodiment  of  the  Falsity  of  the 
Teachings  of  Christia^i  Science. 

As  a  final  demonstration  of  the  inability  of 
the  Christian  Science  scheme  of  healing  to 
make  good  its  extravagant  claims,  I  point  to 
the  person  of  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy.  If  she  were 
free  from  the  attacks  of  disease  and  inroads  of 
infirmity  and  age,  why  during  the  closing  years 
of  her  life  did  she  conceal  her  person  from 
public  gaze  and  view!  If  Christian  Science 
affords  a  constant  security  for  interior  serenity 
and  peace,  why  near  the  end  of  her  days  did 
she  give  evidence  of  being  either  insane  or 
obsessed?  Those  intimately  associated  with 
her  testify  that  she  lived  her  last  days  in 
mortal  dread  of  enemies,  who  she  thought  were 
mentally  hurling  cancer  against  her.  A  former 
student  of  Christian  Science  and  a  resident  in 
the  Metaphysical  College  with  Mrs.  Eddy, 
writes:  "Mrs.  Eddy  was  constantly  having  at- 
tacks of  illness  (always  in  the  night).  We 
were  often  called  up  about  eleven  o'clock  at 
night  to  treat  her,  and  were  obliged  to  remain 
up  until  about  two  o'clock  a.  m.  These  attacks, 
we  were  told,  were  brought  on  by  the  ^ enemy,' 
working  through  us,  as  her  students.  She 
claimed  that  the  only  way  the  ^ enemy'  could 
reach  her  was  through  her  students,  she  being 
so    strong  and   so   pure   that   their   'malicious 


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animal  magnetism'  could  not  reach  her  in  any 
other  way.  So  we  used  to  go  into  the  parlor, 
after  breakfast  and  supper,  each  day,  and  men- 
tally 'take  up  the  enemy/  We  were  taught  to 
recognize  the  error,  and  treat  ourselves  and 
the  'enemy,'  so  that  they  ('the  enemy')  could 
have  no  power  over  us,  or  our  patients;  and 
every  time  we  gave  the  treatments  we  were 
taught  to  first  'treat  the  enemy.' 

"The  result  of  all  this  was,  that  Mrs.  Eddy 
was  always  full  of  fear;  as  the  'enemy'  were 
supposed  to  have  power  to  prevent  all  kinds 
of  desired  results,  not  only  in  healing,  but  in 
business,  as  well. 

"I  was  taught  that  the  postal  clerks  were 
so  mesmerized  that  letters  to  and  from  the 
College  would  never  reach  their  destination 
unless  certain  conditions  were  complied  with; 
also  that  the  telegraph  operators  were  so  under 
this  malicious  influence  that  a  message  sent  by 
telegraph  would  not  reach  the  person  to  whom 
it  was  sent  unless  certain  precautions  were 
taken.  I  was  once  sent  from  her  house  to  West 
Newton  to  forward  a  telegraph  message  to 
Chicago,  so  that  it  would  be  sent  by  way  of 
Worcester,  instead  of  Boston,  as  all  Boston 
operators  were  supposed  to  be  so  mesmerized 
by  the  'enemy'  that  no  message  from  Mrs.  Eddy 
could    reach   its    destination,    if    sent    through 


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their  hands.  And  so  I  might  run  on  for  hours, 
giving  you  facts  about  such  things. 

^'I  was  told  to  treat  the  ^ enemy'  (Kennedy, 
Arnes,  Choate  and  Childs)  to  cause  their  ^old 
beliefs'  to  return,  'and  prostrate  them  at  once!' 
'Old  beliefs'  meant  former  diseases,  from 
which  they  had  been  healed,  in  some  cases 
even  tumors  and  cancers."  (Quoted  by  F.  W. 
Peabody.) 

Do  not  the  events,  recounted  above,  demon- 
strate that  the  mind  of  Mrs.  Eddy  was  fairly 
ridden  by  the  witchcraft  delusion!  Can  we 
imagine  anyone  acting  in  the  manner  described, 
save  a  person  possessed  by  the  devil  or  hope- 
lessly insane? 

The  Death  of  Mrs.  Eddy  a  Proof  of  the  Failure 

of  Christian  Science.     The  Spectre 

of  Eddyism. 

Finally  an  attack  of  pneumonia  seized  Mrs. 
Eddy.  Whether  she  employed  Christian  Sci- 
ence healing  or  invoked  the  aid  of  a  doctor  of 
medicine,  I  know  not.  This  much  is  history: 
Mrs.  Eddy  perished,  was  laid  out  a  stiff  corpse, 
was  buried,  and  rose  not  again  from  the  dead. 
Her  death  is  the  last  stab,  the  mortal  blow,  to 
her  heartless  and  cruel  fraud.  Her  own  person 
has  refuted  its  claims, — and  over  her  grave 
tonight  stands  the  system  she  has  founded,  a 
robber  appropriating  the  science  of  mind  heal- 


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ing,  which  was  already  practiced  in  the  land  of 
the  Nile  when  the  pyramids  were  building,  a 
merciless  fraud  claiming  cures  when  none  are 
effected,  an  absolute  failure,  as  attested  by  the 
hundreds  of  tombstones  that  mark  the  graves 
of  the  deluded  ones,  who  until  their  dying 
breath  clung  to  Eddyism,  turned  their  faces 
from  the  physician,  and  in  their  folly  met  their 
death. 


MORAL  BLEMISHES  DISQUALIFY  THE 
CLAIMS  OF  MRS.  EDDY 


"And  through  covetousncss  shall  they  zvith  feigned  zuords 
make  merchandise  of  you."     II  Peter  2:3. 

The  creatures,  whom  God  in  love  created, 
rose  in  defiance  and  rebellion.  The  light  of 
God's  countenance,  in  consequence,  was  with- 
drawn from  them,  and  men  wandered  into  the 
darkness  of  error  and  superstition,  many  fall- 
ing by  the  wayside,  fatigued  and  dying. 

"Which  of  You  Can  Convince  Me  of  Sinf" 

Before  His  Father's  throne  stepped  the  Son 
of  God.  His  resolve,  as  noble  as  only  a  God 
could  conceive  it,  was  to  become  our  Redeemer. 
He  came  in  appearance  as  the  Son  of  Joseph, 
the  carpenter, — and  yet  men  of  unprejudiced 
will  have  accepted  Him  as  the  Messiah.  Why! 
Because  He  raised  the  infirm  from  their  beds 
of  sickness,  and  called  the  dead  from  the  sleep 
of  the  tomb;  because  He  preached  a  dogmatic 
and  moral  teaching  in  which  blend  the  beauty 
of  truth  and  the  sweetness  of  charity;  because, 
finally.  His  life  and  conduct  in  unrivaled  man- 


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ner  corresponded  with  the  sublime  ideals  Ho 
propounded,  so  that  His  bitterest  and  most 
malignant  enemies  could  not  answer  the  chal- 
lenge, * '  Which  of  you  can  convince  Me  of  sin  ? ' ' 

Mrs.  Eddy  Claims  a  Divine  Revelation. 

Wellnigh  nineteen  centuries  later  appeared 
Mrs.  Baker  Eddy.  In  no  uncertain  terms  she 
laid  claim  to  having  received  a  special  divine 
revelation,  writing  of  herself,  '^God  had  been 
graciously  preparing  me  during  many  years 
for  the  reception  of  this  final  revelation  of  the 
absolute  divine  Principle  of  scientific  mental 
healing."  (''Science  .and  Health,''  pg.  107.) 
''No  human  pen  nor  tongue  taught  me  the 
Science  contained  in  this  book,  'Science  and 
Health';  and  neither  tongue  nor  pen  can  over- 
throw it."     ("Science  and  Health,"  pg.  110.) 

This  final  revelation  she  intimates  to  be 
superior  to  the  teachings  of  Christ,  when  she 
writes:  "Our  Master  healed  the  sick  and 
taught  the  generalities  of  His  Divine  Princi- 
ple; but  He  left  no  definite  rule  for  demon- 
strating His  Principle  of  healing  and  prevent- 
ing disease.  This  remained  to  be  discovered 
through  Christian  Science."  ("Science  and 
Health,"  pg.  98,  1898  ed.)  As  a  consequence 
Mrs.  Eddy  designated  her  gospel  and  religion 
as  the  completion  and  plenitude  of  God's  reve 


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lation,  and  identified  it  with  the  Holy  Ghost. 
''The  ego  is  revealed  as  Father,  Son,  and  Holy 
Ghost;  but  the  full  truth  is  found  in  divine 
Science,  where  we  see  God  as  Life,  Truth,  and 
Love.  The  Science  of  God  and  man  is  the 
Holy  Ghost.''  ("Unity  of  Good,"  pgs.  51  and 
52.) 

Conduct  Not  Indifferent  to  the  Claims  of 
Mrs.  Eddy. 

Conduct  and  character  cannot  be  indifferent 
relative  to  the  mission  claimed  by  Mrs.  Baker 
Eddy.  We  shall,  hence,  briefly  consider  Mrs. 
Eddy's  life,  and  witness,  whether  or  not  she 
was  qualified  to  be  God's  ambassador  "to  pro- 
claim His  doctrine  to  this  age."  ("Science 
and  Health,"  Preface  XL) 

Hears  Voices,  When  Not  Called. 

Mrs.  Eddy  was  born  near  Concord,  N.  H., 
in  1821.  As  a  child  she  is  described  by  Sybil 
Wilbur  to  have  been  precocious,  emotional  and 
argumentative.  When  she  was  twelve  years 
old  she  began  to  hear  voices  and  fancied  her- 
self called  by  her  mother  when  she  was  not. 

Mrs.  Eddy  informs  us  that  when  a  girl  she 
was  graduated  from  Dyer  H.  Sanborn's  Acad- 
emy. But,  according  to  her  old  schoolmates, 
the  "institution"  which  Mrs.  Eddy  dignified 
with  the  name  "academy"  was  merely  a  large 


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room  over  a  district  school,  where  the  children 
received  little  instruction, — never  in  fact  get- 
ting beyond  the  three  R's.     (F.  W.  Peabody.) 

Mrs.  Eddy  Lays  Claim  to  a  Classical  and 
Philosophical  Education!? 

Mrs.  Eddy  claims  to  have  received  a  classi- 
cal education,  telling  us  that  her  brother 
taught  her  Latin,  Greek  and  Hebrew.  She 
was,  according  to  her  own  testimony,  at  the 
tender  age  of  twelve  also  a  student  of  philos- 
ophy,— ethics  and  logic  being  the  branches  of 
predilection.  But  the  least  we  can  say  is,  that 
her  progress  in  these  various  branches  must 
have  come  to  a  sudden  stop.  Logic  above  all 
is  exceedingly  conspicuous  in  her  writings — by 
its  absence. 

Mrs.  Eddy  Visits  Dr.  Quimby.     She  Eulogizes 
Him. 

After  dabbling  in  Spiritism  and  Mesmerism, 
and  practicing  clairvoyance,  she  formed  an 
acquaintance  with  Doctor  (doctor  by  courtesy 
only)  Phineas  Quimby. 

Dr.  Quimby 's  method  of  healing  was  a  spe- 
cies of  suggestion.  Besides  the  practical  part 
of  his  system,  Dr.  Quimby  had  elaborated  a  set 
of  abstract  doctrines,  both  metaphysical  and 
theological.  Mrs.  Eddy  describes  the  first  visit 
she  paid  Dr.  Quimby  and  the  cure  he  wrought 


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in  her  in  an  article  to  the  Portland  E veiling 
Courier  for  Nov.  7,  1862.  ''Three  weeks  ago,'^ 
she  writes,  ''I  quitted  my  nurse  and  sick  room 
en  route  for  Portland.  The  belief  of  my  re- 
covery had  died  out  of  the  heart  of  those  who 
were  most  anxious  for  it.  With  this  mental 
and  physical  depression  I  visited  P.  P.  Quimby, 
and  in  less  than  one  week  from  that  time  I 
ascended  by  a  stairway  of  one  hundred  and 
eighty-two  steps  to  the  dome  of  the  City  Hall, 
and  am  improving  ad  infinitum.  This  truth 
which  he  opposes  to  the  error  of  giving  intel- 
ligence to  matter  and  placing  pain  where  it 
never  placed  itself,  if  received  understand- 
ingly,  changes  the  currents  of  the  system  to 
their  normal  action  and  the  mechanism  of  the 
body  goes  on  undisturbed.  That  this  is  a 
science  capable  of  demonstration  becomes  clear 
to  the  minds  of  those  patients  who  reason  upon 
the  process  of  their  cure.  The  truth  which  he 
establishes  in  the  patient,  cures  him  (although 
he  may  be  wholly  unconscious  thereof),  and 
the  body,  which  is  full  of  light,  is  no  longer  in 
disease."     (F.  W.  Peabody.) 

Mrs.  Eddy  Scorns  Dr.  Quimhy. 

About  twenty-five  years  later  Mrs.  Baker 
Eddy  wrote  of  this  same  Dr.  Quimby:  ''I  never 
heard  him  intimate  that  he  healed  diseases 
mentally.     His   healing  was   never   considered 


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or  called  any  thing  but  Mesmerism."     {Chris- 
tian Science  Journal,  June,  1887.) 

Why  the  Change  of  Sentiment?     What  Fears 
Mrs.  Eddyf 

Now  why  this  change  of  attitude  on  the  part. 
of  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy  towards  Dr.  Quimby? 
Did  she  grow  afraid  that  the  world  would 
doubt  her  claim  that  Heaven  had  revealed 
Christian  Science  to  her,  and  would  believe 
that  she  had  stolen  and  learnt  the- theory  and 
practice  of  Christian  Science  from  Dr.  Quimbyf 
F.  W.  Peabody  and  other  writers  accuse  Mrs. 
Baker  Eddy  of  this  charge. 

God-given,  or  Stolen  from  Br.  Quimhy? 

Dr.  Quimby  with  the  aid  of  friends  managed 
to  set  forth  his  doctrine  in  a  series  of  essays, 
which  he  communicated  to  his  patients,  also 
to  Mrs.  Eddy.  These  essays  contain  in  sub- 
stance what  comprises  the  theorizings  of  Mrs. 
Eddy  in  later  years ;  their  terminology  is  often 
identical  with  that  in  ''Science  and  Health"; 
and  in  various  places  Dr.  Quimby  calls  his 
system  "Christian  Science." 

Mrs.  Eddy's  Claims  Rejected.     She  Lacks 
Truthfulness. 

Mrs.  Eddy  denies  any  obligation  to  Dr. 
Quimby,  but  having  established  a  long  record 


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for  lying  regarding  her  early  education,  re- 
garding the  cures  she  alleges  in  the  fictitious 
chapter  entitled  ''Fruitage,''  having  flipflopped 
from  the  position  of  adoring  Dr.  Quimby  as 
the  one  ''who  healed  as  Jesus  healed"  to  the 
position  of  scorning  him  and  calling  him  "a 
magnetic  doctor,"  how  can  we  take  her  word 
relative  to  the  origin  of  her  religion,  which 
she  claims  to  have  received  as  a  revelation 
from  Heaven?  One  of  the  first  requisites  that 
we  demand  in  a  person  claiming  to  be  an  am- 
bassador of  God  to  men  is  truthfulness.  Is 
truthfulness,  however,  apparent  in  Mrs.  Baker 
Eddy's  character! 

Second   Feature   Deeply    Compromising    Mrs. 
Eddy's  Moral  Record. 

The  second  feature  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  life  dis- 
qualifying her  claim  to  a  Divine  mission,  is  her 
remorseless,  rapacious  greed. 

Preaches  for  Cash. 

As  stated,  Mrs.  Eddy  announced  to  the  world 
that  she  had  received  from  Heaven  a  doctrine 
necessary  for  salvation  to  all  men.  The  truths 
of  this  new  revelation  she  taught  at  the  follow- 
ing rates:  First  at  whatever  price  she  could 
exact;  then  one  hundred  dollars  in  advance, 
with  ten  per  cent,  royalty  on  the  students'  sub- 
sequent income  from  practice,  and   one  thou- 


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sand  dollars  if,  having  learned  the  system,  he 
did  not  care  to  practice  it;  then  three  hundred 
dollars  for  twelve  lessons ;  and  finally  three 
hundred  dollars  for  seven  lessons — cash  strictly 
in  advance.     (F.  W.  Peabody.) 

Fifty-cent  Book  Sold  at  the  Price  of  Three  to 
Six  Dollars.     Neiv  Editions  Periodically. 

Moreover,  Mrs.  Eddy  also  wrote  a  book  in 
which  she  embodied  her  '' God-given''  doctrine. 
From  three  to  six  dollars,  according  to  bind- 
ing, was  continuously  the  charge  for  the  book. 
Each  teacher  of  Christian  Science  and  each 
teacher's  student  was  required  to  procure  a 
copy.  Mrs.  Eddy  was  accustomed  to  receive 
new  gushes  of  inspiration.  This  meant  a  new 
edition  of  ''Science  and  Health";  whereupon 
every  loyal  Christian  Scientist  was  expected 
to  discard  the  old  copy  and  procure  the  latest 
edition.  Thus  in  February,  1908,  was  pub- 
lished, over  the  signature  of  Mrs.  Eddy,  the 
following  notice   (quoted  by  F.  W.  Peabody)  : 


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TAKE  NOTICE 


''I  request  Christian  Scientists  universally 
to  read  the  paragraph  beginning  at  line  thirty 
of  page  442  in  the  edition  of  'Science  and 
Health,'  which  will  be  issued,  February  29. 
I  consider  the  information  there  given  to  be  of 
great  importance  at  this  stage  of  the  workings 


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of  animal  magnetism,  and  it  will  greatly  aid 
the  students  in  their  individual  experiences. 

''Mary.  Baker  G.  Eddy." 

The  new  edition  came  forth.  What  was  the 
new  gush  of  ''inspiration"?  This:  "Christian 
Scientists,  be  a  law  to  yourselves,  that  mental 
malpractice  can  harm  you  neither  when  asleep 
nor  when  awake."  For  this  bit  of  information 
every  obedient  Christian  Scientist  procured  the 
latest  edition  and  paid  from  three  to  six  dol- 
lars into  the  coffers  of  "inspired"  Mrs.  Eddy. 

Christian  Science  Spoons. 

Finally  Mrs.  Eddy  imparted  Christian  Sci- 
ence by  the  spoonfuls.  The  following  command 
was  issued  (quoted  by  F.  W.  Peabody)  : 
"Christian  Science  Spoons — On  each  of  these 
most  beautiful  spoons  is  a  motto  in  bas-relief 
that  every  person  on  earth  needs  to  hold  in 
thought.  Mother  requests  that  Christian  Sci- 
entists shall  not  ask  to  be  informed  what  this 
motto  is,  but  each  Scientist  shall  purchase  at 
least  one  spoon,  and  those  who  can  afford  it, 
one  dozen  spoons,  that  their  families  may  read 
this  motto  at  every  meal  and  their  guests  be 
made  partakers  of  its  simple  truth. 

"Mary  Baker  Eddy." 


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A  Consistent  Record  for  Greed  Disqualifies  the 
Claims  of  Mrs.  Eddy. 

We  have  stated  the  facts :  let"  us  now  draw 
the  conclusions.  Shall  we  believe  this  woman 
who  reduced  religion  to  a  business  asset,  who 
descended  to  mammonish  expedients  to  trick 
her  victims,  who  imparted  to  them  ^^  divine 
revelation''  by  the  earfuls  and  eyefuls  and 
mouthfuls  for  profit  in  dollars  and  cents,  shall 
we  believe  her,  I  ask,  to  be  the  one  selected 
from  among  the  children  of  men  by  God  Al- 
mighty to  be  His  ambassador  and  teacher  in 
this  late  age? 

Mrs.  Eddy  Compared  to  Jesus  Christ,  the 
Savior. 

Mrs.  Eddy  claims  equality  with,  nay,  supe- 
riority to  the  Messiah.  Now  imagine  Jesus 
Christ  preaching  to  the  multitudes  in  the  ham- 
lets of  Palestine  at  a  fixed  price  per  hour, — 
fancy  Him  healing  the  wretched  and  the  sick 
for  cash  to  be  paid  in  advance, — see  Him  rush- 
ing them  into  court  if  they  failed  to  live  up  to 
the  contract, — conceive  Him  instructing  His 
disciples  in  the  truths  eternal  upon  payment 
of  a  heavy  fee,  and  then  commissioning  them 
to  go  into  the  whole  world,  and  to  preach  His 
Gospel  for  gold  and  silver,  a  percentage,  how- 
ever, of  their  earnings  to  be  returned  to  Him, — 
finally  contemplate  Him,  not  dying  in  stark  and 


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naked  poverty  on  the  cross,  bnt  spending  the 
last  years  of  His  life  amid  a  splendor  rivaling 
that  of  Herod's  court, — then  I  say  yon  have  a 
faint  type  of  Mrs.  Baker  Eddy,  the  religio- 
medical  financier! 

Heaven  Inspired  Her  to  Charge  a  Heavy  Fee  If 

In  ''Eetrospection  and  Introspection''  (page 
50)  Mrs.  Eddy  writes:  "When  God  impelled 
me  to  set  a  price  on  my  instruction  in  Chris- 
tian Science  Mind-healing,  I  could  think  of  no 
financial  equivalent  for  an  impartation  of  a 
knowledge  of  that  divine  power  which  heals; 
but  I  was  led  to  name  three  hundred  dollars  as 
the  price  for  each  pupil  in  one  course  of  les- 
sons at  my  College, — a  startling  sum  for  tui- 
tion lasting  barely  three  weeks.  This  amount 
greatly  troubled  me.  I  shrank  from  asking 
it,  but  was  finally  led,  by  a  strange  providence, 
to  accept  this  fee." 

Tender  Soul!    Providence  to  Blame. 

This  an  inspiration  from  Heaven?  No.  It 
is  another  sleight-of-hand  trick  on  the  part  of 
Mrs.  Eddy.  She  pulls  the  black  cap  tighter 
over  the  eyes  of  her  victims,  thus  the  better 
to  pick  their  pockets.  Conceive,  if  you  can, 
the  Almighty  God  bending  down  from  His 
throne  and  whispering  into  the  ear  of  Mrs. 
Eddy  to  charge  Three  Hundred  Dollars!    Ten- 


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der  soul!  she  draws  back.  It  would  bleed  her 
heart  to  take  three  hundred  dollars.  But  God 
persists,  and  finally,  slowly  and  reluctantly 
Mother  Eddy  yields.  Later  on  God  showed 
her,  she  writes,  '4n  multitudinous  ways  the 
wisdom  of  this  decision.''  True  there  was 
wisdom  in  it — commercial  wisdom !  Mrs.  Eddy 
herself  writes  that  within  seven  years  four 
thousand  students  were  taught  by  her.  Four 
thousand  times  three  hundred  equals  one  mil- 
lion two  hundred  thousand.  One  million  two 
hundred  thousand  dollars  gained  within  seven 
years ! 

The  God  of  Christianity  Not  the  God  of 
Christian  Science. 

If  God  were  the  God  that  Mrs.  Eddy  por- 
trayed Him  to  be, — a  God  who  in  ten  times  ten 
pages  contradicts  Himself  one  hundred  times,  a 
God  who  reveals  to  Mrs.  Eddy  a  doctrine  in 
diametrical  contradiction  to  the  dogmatical  and 
moral  teachings  which  He  delivered  to  the  chil- 
dren of  Israel  through  His  Prophet  Moses,  and 
finally  to  all  the  children  of  the  world  through 
His  only  begotten  Son,  Jesus  Christ,  I  say,  if 
God  were  such  a  God,  then  I  hesitate  not  to 
believe  that  He  would  condescend  to  give  to 
Mrs.  Eddy  a  gospel  that  should  serve  merely 
for  her  own  pecuniary  profit.  But  such  a  God 
is  a  monstrositv,  a  God  of  deceit  and  falsehood 


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and  mammon.  Mammon  and  Power  —  these 
were  the  twin  gods  before  whom  Mrs.  Eddy 
worshiped,  for  whom  she  lived  and  labored,  and 
who  inspired  her. 

No  Injustice  Done.     Evidence  Lies  in  the  Open. 

From  this  world  Mrs.  Eddy  has  already 
passed.  Her  naked  soul  has  been  judged  be- 
fore the  tribunal  of  Him  whose  love  she  ex- 
ploited, namely,  Jesus  Christ.  We  wish  her 
mercy  at  His  hands.  But  for  the  deeds,  the 
fraud,  she  inaugurated  and  which  today  her 
successors  are  perpetuating,  words  fail  me  to 
express  contempt  sufficiently  deep.  Harsh 
words  have  I  uttered  regarding  Mrs.  Eddy.  I 
regret  them  not  nor  do  I  feel  constrained  to 
offer  an  apology. 

No  Harsh  Words  for  Christian  Scientists. 

For  her  followers,  those,  namely,  who  have 
been  honestly  deluded  into  the  snares  of  Chris- 
tian Science,  we  feel  only  compassion.  They 
have  done  violence  to  their  reason;  they  have 
handed  themselves  over  to  Eddyism,  bound 
hands  and  feet;  they  have  prostrated  them- 
selves before  a  Christ  existing  only  in  the 
dreams  of  a  scheming  woman;  and,  most  piti- 
able of  all,  their  case  is  hopeless,  for  genuine 
investigation  is  forbidden  to  them. 


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Actions  Speak  Louder  Than  Words. 

High-browed  Scientists  may  pity  us,  for  the 
reason  that  we  are  not  intelligent  enough  to 
grasp  the  deep  meaning  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  phil- 
osophy, not  spiritual  enough  to  appreciate  the 
blessings  that  God  has  entrusted  to  her  for  the 
welfare  of  mankind.  I  confess  that  I  experi- 
ence difficulty  in  following  Mother  Eddy  in  her 
wild  flights  of  fancy  and  zigzag  course  of  rea- 
soning. But  if  I  be  unable  to  grasp  the  mean- 
ing of  her  words,  I  can  at  least  understand 
the  meaning  of  her  actions.  Actions  speak 
louder  than  words.  Would,  then,  these  people 
— if  they  dare  not  question  the  words  of  Mrs. 
Eddy — at  least  consider  her  character?  ^^No 
doubt,  as  a  woman  of  extraordinary  nervous 
tension,  she  could  be  rather  fascinating  in  her 
happier  moods.  But  what  could  be  more  fool- 
ish and  aberrant  than  to  permit  impressions 
derived  from  any  superficial  self-manifestation 
to  weigh  against  the  moral  blemishes  with 
which  her  career  is  broadly  streaked?  Insight 
into  the  nature  of  the  actual  record  must  make 
it  appear  as  one  of  the  most  amazing  misad- 
justments  in  all  religious  history  that  this 
woman  should  be  brought  into  temples  of  wor- 
ship and  placed  there,  as  respects  the  authority 
of  her  teaching,  on  a  level  with  Jesus  Christ. '' 
(H.  C.  Sheldon.) 


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Final  Word  to  Catholics.     Genuine  Christian 
Science. 

To  ye,  Catholics,  one  last  word  I  address. 
You  are  convinced  that  Christian  Science  is  not 
of  God, — else  this  moment  you  are  no  longer 
Catholics.  The  only  allurement  that  can  entice 
you  into  the  fold  of  Eddyism  is  a  specious 
promise  of  health.  But  even  if  Eddyism  pos- 
sessed the  monopoly  of  mental  healing,  are  you 
prepared  for  health  of  body,  which  like  the 
grass  of  the  field  perishes  and  fades,  to  sacri- 
fice your  intellect  and  your  faith — your  faith 
that  you  recognize  and  love  as  Divine — and 
hazard  your  souPs  eternal  salvation? 

But,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  every  healing  expe- 
dient that  Christian  Science  possesses  can  be 
paralleled  in  your  own  Church.  Not  a  genuine 
truth  in  Christian  Science,  but  which  is  found 
in  the  teachings  of  the  Catholic  Church.  If 
you,  and  the  world,  be  ignorant  of  this  fact, 
then  the  fault  lies  not  with  the  Church,  but 
with  your  ignorance. 

The  Catholic  Church  teaches  that  God  is  the 
Supreme  Good,  that  His  Goodness  endowed  us 
with  life  and  being,  that  '4n  Him  we  live  and 
move  and  are.^' 

The  Catholic  Church  teaches  that  God  de- 
scended to  this  earth  and  dwelt  amongst  us, 
that  he  imparted  to  us  a  doctrine  lighting  up 


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the  way  to  our  eternal  destiny,  that  He  insti- 
tuted external  signs,  the  seven  Sacraments,  to 
benefit  not  only  our  souls,  but  also  our  bodies. 
The  Catholic  Church  teaches  that  we  are  not 
God,  but  that  God  dwells  within  us  by  His 
Holy  Spirit  and  in  the  Holy  Eucharist;  that, 
though  we  cannot  be  the  sons  of  God  by 
nature,  nevertheless,  He  calls  us  to  be  His  sons 
by  adoption,  and  joint-heirs  with  Christ. 


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